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Greenhouse gas emissions could reduce drag in the upper atmosphere, leaving more space debris in orbit and making satellites ...

All the excess carbon dioxide generated by people burning fossil fuels is shrinking the upper atmosphere, exacerbating the ...

Rocket Lab launched the final five satellites for the French company Kinéis' "Internet of Things" constellation tonight ...

Part of the greenhouse effect that warms the air near Earth's surface also cools the upper parts of the atmosphere where space starts and satellites zip around in low orbit. The cooling also makes ...

But most satellites operate in a zone called “low Earth orbit,” between 200 and 2,000 kilometers up, and can take hundreds to thousands of years to fall. The higher, outermost reaches of Earth ...

The rocket's upper stage did its job as well, deploying the 21 Starlink satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) as planned. SpaceX has now launched nearly 8,100 Starlink satellites to date ...

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 ...

Climate change is reshaping the environment of near-Earth space in ways that could significantly limit the number of satellites able to safely operate in low Earth orbit by the end of the century ...

SpaceX and other companies plan to launch tens of thousands of satellites, which could mar astronomical observations and pollute the atmosphere.