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Once again, ULA can't deliver when the US military needs a satellite in orbit (arstechnica.com)

2026-03-20 | get ULA Atlas V Rocket → | tags: ula, spacex, vulcan rocket

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Startup Emerges From Stealth With Bold Plan to Beam Solar Power to Satellites (gizmodo.com)

2026-03-13 | get Solar Power Satellite Kit → | tags: mantis space, solar power, satellites

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Militaries are scrambling to create their own Starlink (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-13 | by Author.Fullname | get Starlink Satellite Internet Kit → | tags: starlink, elonn musk, military satellites

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Why the militaries are scrambling to create their own Starlink (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-13 | by Author.Fullname | get Starlink Satellite Internet Kit → | tags: starlink, elonn musk, military satellites

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Say Goodbye to the Undersea Cable That Made the Global Internet Possible (wired.com)

2026-02-23 | by Jane Ruffino | get Undersea Cable → | tags: subsea cables, wired, sharks

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Study shows how rocket launches pollute the atmosphere (arstechnica.com)

2026-02-22 | get Satellite → | tags: spacecraft pollution, stratosphere, spaceflight emissions

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Orbital AI data centers could work, but they might ruin Earth in the process (engadget.com)

2026-02-19 | get Data center → | tags: advertisement, earth, orbit

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AST SpaceMobile Unfolds the Largest Commercial Communications Array Antenna in Low Earth Orbit (gizmodo.com)

2026-02-12 | get Satellite → | tags: company generation, feet, feet square

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‘We’ll Find the Remnants of Ancient Alien Civilizations’: Read Musk’s Gibberish Rant from His xAI All-Hands Meeting (gizmodo.com)

2026-02-12 | get Neural Network → | tags: ai satellites, deep, driver

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Why the economics of orbital AI are so brutal (techcrunch.com)

2026-02-11 | by Tim Fernholz | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: centers, cost, data centers

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Elon Musk wants to launch AI satellites from the Moon using a giant catapult (techspot.com)

2026-02-11 | get AI satellites → | tags: ai satellites, build, build massive

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Amazon gets FCC approval to launch 4,500 Leo internet satellites (cnbc.com)

2026-02-10 | by Annie Palmer | get Satellite Internet → | tags: amazon, orbit, planned

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SpaceX Is Building Its Own Particle Accelerator (futurism.com)

2026-02-09 | by Victor Tangermann | get Fusion Reactor → | tags: cyclotron, particle, particles

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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 | get Starlink → | 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 | get Satellite → | tags: european, european satellites, luch

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

2026-02-04 | by Posted | get Intelligence satellites → | tags: european, european satellites, luch

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

2026-02-04 | get Intelligence satellites → | 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 | get Satellite → | 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 | get Satellite → | 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 | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: farrar, money, 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 | get Satellite → | 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 | get Satellite Data Centers → | 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 | get Satellite Constellation → | 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 | get Solar Data Center → | 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 | get Satellite Internet → | 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 | get Satellite → | tags: jumpseat, jumpseat satellites, national

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

2026-01-27 | by Sean O'Kane | get Spacecraft → | 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 | get Satellite → | tags: debris, earth, kessler

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

2026-01-26 | get Satellite → | tags: encased, encased wood, satellites