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20-gigawatt Chinese microwave weapon touted as ‘Starlink’s worst nightmare’ by country's media — portable 5-ton device can deliver full-minute destructive bursts (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-07 | by Mark Tyson | related products | tags: china, microwave, power

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Russian 'Inspector' spacecraft intercepted communications from a dozen European satellites, report claims — fears Moscow could even manipulate trajectories or crash satellites (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-06 | by Luke James | related products | tags: european, european satellites, luch

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I’m not holding my breath for Elon Musk’s SpaceX phone, and neither should you (androidauthority.com)

2026-02-05 | related products | tags: musk, phone, satellite

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Russian Spy Satellites Have Intercepted EU Communications Satellites (slashdot.org)

2026-02-04 | by Posted | related products | tags: european, european satellites, luch

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Russian spy satellites have intercepted EU communications satellites (arstechnica.com)

2026-02-04 | related products | tags: european, european satellites, luch

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Data centers in space makes no sense (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-03 | by Andrew Yoon | related products | tags: centers, cost, data centers

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SpaceX acquires xAI in a bid to make orbiting data centers a reality — Musk plans to launch a million tons of satellites annually, targets 1TW/year of space-based compute capacity (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-03 | by Jowi Morales | related products | tags: earth, launching, musk

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Musk's xAI needs SpaceX deal for the money. Data centers in space are still a dream (cnbc.com)

2026-02-03 | by Lora Kolodny Ari Levy | related products | tags: farrar, money, musk

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Elon Musk's SpaceX acquiring AI startup xAI ahead of potential IPO (cnbc.com)

2026-02-02 | by Ari Levy Lora Kolodny | related products | tags: billion, musk, satellite

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SpaceX acquires xAI, plans 1 million satellite constellation to power it (arstechnica.com)

2026-02-02 | related products | tags: acquired, constellation, musk

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SpaceX formalizes plan to build 1 million satellite Orbital Data Center System — FCC filing sketches out plans, but over-packed orbits could be limiting factor (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-01 | by Jowi Morales | related products | tags: energy, million, million satellites

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SpaceX seeks federal approval to launch 1 million solar-powered satellite data centers (techcrunch.com)

2026-01-31 | by Anthony Ha | related products | tags: filing, launch, million

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SpaceX wants to launch a constellation of a million satellites to power AI needs (engadget.com)

2026-01-31 | related products | tags: center, filing, orbital

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SpaceX wants to put 1 million solar-powered data centers into orbit (theverge.com)

2026-01-31 | by Terrence O'Brien | related products | tags: centers, data centers, orbit

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Amazon asks FCC for extension for Leo satellite internet service (cnbc.com)

2026-01-31 | by Annie Palmer | related products | tags: amazon, company said, internet

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US spy satellite agency declassifies high-flying Cold War listening post (arstechnica.com)

2026-01-29 | related products | tags: jumpseat, jumpseat satellites, national

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Japan lost a 5-ton navigation satellite when it fell off a rocket during launch (arstechnica.com)

2026-01-28 | related products | tags: eighth, japan, michibiki

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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 | related products | tags: altitude, lowering, satellite

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Northwood Space secures a $100M Series B and a $50M Space Force contract (techcrunch.com)

2026-01-27 | by Sean O'Kane | related products | tags: ground, mendler, northwood

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

2026-01-26 | by Frank Landymore | related products | tags: debris, earth, kessler

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Satellites encased in wood are in the works (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-26 | related products | tags: encased, encased wood, satellites

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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 | related products | 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 | related products | tags: clarity, control, ground

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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 | related products | tags: number, orbit, satellite

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Bezos' Blue Origin announces satellite rival to Musk's Starlink (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-01-22 | related products | tags: amazon, blue, blue origin

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TeraWave Satellite Communications Network (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-21 | related products | tags: communications, communications network, network

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I Made Zig Compute 33M Satellite Positions in 3 Seconds. No GPU Required (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-21 | related products | tags: astroz, const, satellite

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Could We Provide Better Cellphone Service With Fewer, Bigger Satellites? (slashdot.org)

2026-01-18 | by Posted | related products | tags: ast spacemobile, launch, satellite

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Verizon reveals the cause of Wednesday's massive outage (and how to get your free $20 credit) (zdnet.com)

2026-01-17 | by Kerry Wan | related products | tags: emergency, emergency sos, issue

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Gladys West's vital contributions to GPS technology (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-16 | related products | tags: center, dahlgren, earth