Pentagon is closely monitoring Russia and China test military capabilities in space
US military officials believe Russia and China are aggressively testing new offensive space capabilities, pointing to a ...
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SpaceX launches 74 satellites toward orbit, lands Falcon 9 rocket for the 400th time (video)
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 74 satellites from California early Saturday morning (March 15), then came back to Earth ...
SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites 12 hours after Crew-10 sent to ISS
SpaceX launched another batch of Starlink satellites into orbit, a little more than 12 hours after the private company teamed ...
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Earth Orbit Is Filling Up with Junk. Greenhouse Gases Worsen the Problem.
By the end of the century, a shrinking atmosphere could create a minefield for satellites, like those deployed by SpaceX's ...
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General Atomics Tested Gray Eagle ER UAS Using Proliferated Low Earth Orbit Satellites
GA-ASI says that Gray Eagle is the only U.S. Army UAS capable of leveraging Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) and Low Earth ...
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China’s expanding footprint in geostationary orbit raises security concerns
This all makes China potentially unpredictable ... China has approximately 1,000 satellites in orbit as of now, marking a dramatic increase from around 40 satellites in 2010, according to Lerch.
Climate change, already causing problems on Earth, could soon create a mess for orbiting satellites
A new study finds that climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in ...
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Study says climate change will even make Earth’s orbit a mess
Climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth ... gas continues it may reduce the available space for satellites in low Earth orbit by anywhere from one-third to 82 percent ...