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Elon Musk highlights that Starlink could significantly improve internet access in underserved rural areas of India, addressing gaps in current 4G coverage and rural internet subscriptions.
NASA and Katalyst Space have abandoned the rescue mission for the Swift Observatory due to attitude control issues, leading to the satellite's expected re-entry into Earth's atmosphere later this year.
NASA and Katalyst Space Technologies have abandoned a robotic mission to rescue the Swift gamma-ray observatory due to technical issues with the rescue satellite Link, which experienced attitude control problems.
Anduril Industries announced that its ANDURIL-216 satellite reached orbit, developed from clean sheet to launch in under two years.
Space mirror startup Reflect Orbital's plans to launch satellites that reflect sunlight for solar power could disrupt astronomy and risk eye damage, drawing warnings from astronomers.
ELMZip is a novel satellite image compression framework using Extreme Learning Machines (ELM) and domain decomposition to enable efficient onboard neural representation, transmitting only compact output weights to reduce downlink payload while maintaining high reconstruction fidelity.
A user questions how Starlink's planned cellular service would work inside buildings, referencing a claim that it will challenge major carriers like T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T.
Europe's Copernicus Browser now includes wildfire tracking as a default visualization, making higher-resolution satellite imagery easier to access for monitoring fires and smoke.
Stowaway is a real-time web experience that lets you pick any aircraft or satellite overhead and view a simulated window-seat perspective from it, rendered over live terrain with WebGL.
A space startup built its first satellite for $2M including launch, versus traditional quotes of $75-100M, illustrating the power of iterative execution over waiting for certainty. The story comes from Y Combinator's Lightcone Podcast featuring Starcloud's Philip Johnston.
SpaceX plans to build a terrestrial mobile network using EchoStar spectrum and Starlink dishes to compete directly with US carriers like T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon, aiming to acquire many of their customers.
A Rust crate implementing Viterbi and Reed-Solomon forward error correction with SIMD acceleration, achieving faster throughput than the C library libfec on supported codecs.
This article reports on the growing risk of space debris falling to Earth. A Federal Aviation Administration study predicts that by 2035, SpaceX satellite debris could cause one casualty every two years, and explores regulatory gaps and geopolitical implications.
Engineers at Katalyst Space Technologies are working to stabilize their Link satellite after it spun out of control during its mission to rescue NASA's Swift gamma-ray observatory, using the spacecraft's plasma engines to regain attitude control.
NASA has released a new 3D geoid model of Earth's gravitational field, showing its irregular shape exaggerated 10,000 times. The model, based on 15 years of satellite data, aids in tracking ice loss and groundwater changes for climate science.
Reaction wheel failures on Katalyst's Link satellite have complicated the NASA mission to boost the Swift satellite's orbit, but engineers are working on a fix and the mission is considered a success so far.
SpaceX's Starlink team successfully established contact with all 20 V3 satellites after deployment, marking a step forward in expanding the satellite internet constellation.
NOAA's GOES-19 weather satellite has entered a safe hold mode, as reported by the Space Weather Prediction Center.
The FCC has cleared Reflect Orbital to launch its first space mirror satellite, Eärendil-1, which will reflect sunlight to Earth at night despite strong opposition from astronomers concerned about light pollution.
The FCC has approved testing of a space mirror intended to light the night sky, despite public outcry.