Abstract: In light of the significant demand for continuous service to global users, ensuring and improving constellation availability is a major challenge in the development and operation of the ...

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Abstract: Multiple spatial diversity channels and multiple coherent processing intervals cause differences in the target’s scattering nature, bistatic range, and bistatic Doppler frequency. The paper ...

SpaceX has announced it will reconfigure its Starlink internet satellite constellation by lowering the orbit of more than 4,400 satellites throughout 2026, shortly after Beijing said the project posed ...

Starlink is to lower the orbits of about half its satellite constellation over the course of this year, citing safety concerns. The change was announced by Michael Nicolls, VP of Starlink engineering ...

This comes after Starlink said in December that one of its satellites experienced an anomaly in space, creating a "small" amount of debris and cutting off communications with the spacecraft. Starlink ...

What just happened? There have been plenty of reports in recent times about near-misses of low Earth orbit satellites – most of them belonging to Starlink. In 2026, Elon Musk's company hopes to reduce ...

Starlink will begin lowering the orbit of its satellite constellation in 2026, moving spacecraft currently operating at around 342 miles (550 km) down to 298 miles, as the company seeks to improve ...

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An image of Starlink-35956, a satellite that suffered an in-orbit anomaly Dec. 17, confirming the spacecraft was largely intact despite generating hundreds of pieces of debris. Credit: Vantor ...

Jan 1 (Reuters) - Starlink will begin a reconfiguration of its satellite constellation by lowering all of its satellites orbiting at around 550 km (342 miles) to 480 km over the course of 2026, ...