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I watched the Challenger shuttle disaster from inside Mission Control - 40 years ago today (zdnet.com)

2026-01-28 | by Steven Vaughan-Nichols | get Space Shuttle → | tags: flight, manned, nasa

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China satellite near miss prompts Starlink to reduce altitudes — more than 4,000 satellites pulled to 300-mile orbit to increase 'space safety' (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-28 | by Jowi Morales | get Starlink → | tags: altitude, lowering, satellite

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Earth’s Lower Orbit Could Rapidly Collapse, Scientists Warn (futurism.com)

2026-01-26 | by Frank Landymore | get Satellite → | tags: debris, earth, kessler

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Trump’s FCC Just Handed Musk a Major Win, but Scientists Are Warning of an 'Orbital House of Cards' (cnet.com)

2026-01-25 | by See Full Bio | get Satellite → | tags: number, orbit, satellite

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Postmortem: Our first VLEO satellite mission (with imagery and flight data) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-24 | get VLEO → | tags: clarity, control, ground

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Show HN: New 3D Mapping website - Create heli orbits and "playable" map tours. (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-23 | get HeliOrbit → | tags: ads thank, buy ads, commissions

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Astronomers Spot a Mysterious Metallic Cloud Orbiting Something Even More Mysterious (gizmodo.com)

2026-01-22 | get Cloud → | tags: astronomers, astronomers spot, cloud

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I Spoke to Astrophysicists About Starlink’s Expansion. Here’s the Doomsday Scenario Keeping Them Up at Night (cnet.com)

2026-01-22 | by See Full Bio | get Starlink → | tags: number, orbit, satellite

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Blue Origin's Satellite Internet Network TeraWave Will Move Data At 6 Tbps (slashdot.org)

2026-01-22 | get TeraNode → | tags: blue, blue origin, earth

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CRASH Clock Measures Dangerous Overcrowding in Low Earth Orbit (spectrum.ieee.org)

2026-01-21 | by Margo Anderson | get Satellite → | tags: clock, collision, crash

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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launches satellite internet service to rival SpaceX, Amazon (cnbc.com)

2026-01-21 | by Annie Palmer | get Satellite Internet → | tags: bezos, blue, blue origin

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Another Jeff Bezos company has announced plans to develop a megaconstellation (arstechnica.com)

2026-01-21 | get Satellite constellation → | tags: blue, blue origin, earth

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Blue Origin’s Starlink rival TeraWave promises 6-terabit satellite internet (theverge.com)

2026-01-21 | by Richard Lawler | get TerraWave → | tags: blue, blue origin, internet

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Blue Origin’s Starlink rival TeraWave promises 6 terabit satellite internet (theverge.com)

2026-01-21 | by Richard Lawler | get TerraWave → | tags: blue, blue origin, internet

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China’s Proposed Megaconstellations Would Flood Orbit With 200,000 Satellites (gizmodo.com)

2026-01-16 | get Satellite constellation → | tags: active, active orbit, operated

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Redwire and the power that’ll fuel NASA’s Gateway Lunar Space Station (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-16 | get Space Elevator → | tags: missions, moon, orbiting

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Startup’s Next-Gen ‘Space Armor’ Set for First In-Orbit Test on SpaceX Mission This Year (gizmodo.com)

2026-01-15 | get Space Armor → | tags: armor, armor tiles, atomic

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China seeks approval to launch massive orbital satellite constellation (techspot.com)

2026-01-14 | get Orbital Satellite Constellation → | tags: agency, agency submitted, appear

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NASA Deploys Orbital Telescope Designed to Do Something Incredible (futurism.com)

2026-01-13 | by Frank Landymore | get Telescope → | tags: apai, astronomers, exoplanets

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Researchers Beam Power From a Moving Airplane (slashdot.org)

2026-01-13 | get Electric Propulsion → | tags: beaming, earth, orbit

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The FCC is letting SpaceX launch 7,500 more Starlink satellites (theverge.com)

2026-01-10 | by Terrence O'Brien | get Starlink → | tags: approval, collisions, earlier

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Show HN: Rocket Launch and Orbit Simulator (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-09 | get Space Engine → | tags: altitude, guidance, guided

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Rocket Report: A new super-heavy launch site in California; 2025 year in review (arstechnica.com)

2026-01-09 | get Space Launch System → | tags: heavy, launch, launches

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Rocket Report: SpaceX and China led the way in 2025; Vandenberg has room to grow (arstechnica.com)

2026-01-09 | get Satellite → | tags: heavy, launch, launches

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Solar Orbiter Sets Record Watching Sunspot Region That Sparked Global Auroras (gizmodo.com)

2026-01-05 | get Orbiter → | tags: active, active solar, breaking

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SpaceX Lowering Orbits of 4,400 Starlink Satellites for Safety's Sake (slashdot.org)

2026-01-03 | by Posted | get Starlink satellites → | tags: lowering, nicolls, safety

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Starlink Will Be Moving Thousands of Its Satellites for 'Space Safety' Reasons (cnet.com)

2026-01-02 | by See Full Bio | get Starlink satellites → | tags: earth, nicholls, orbit

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SpaceX begins “significant reconfiguration” of Starlink satellite constellation (arstechnica.com)

2026-01-02 | get Starlink → | tags: earth, lower, nicolls

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Startup Satellite Hits 1,800 Degrees, Cooks Up Plasma in Orbit for the First Time (gizmodo.com)

2026-01-02 | get Satellite → | tags: cleaner, cleaner crystals, crystals

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Starlink to lower SpaceX satellites as near-misses pile up in low Earth orbit (techspot.com)

2026-01-02 | get Starlink → | tags: course, course year, engineering