On January 30 2026, SpaceX filed an application with the US Federal Communications Commission for a megaconstellation of up to one million satellites to power data centres in space. The proposal ...

We asked satellite experts to fill us in on what's flying around above us and the challenges SpaceX faces as its constellation balloons to accommodate more users and orbiting data centers.

If executed at the scale, Musk's orbital data center plan could have devastating effects on the environment and the ...

Earth’s orbit is getting crowded, and scientists are warning that space may soon become too risky to manage safely. A new study published in Acta Astronautica takes on a question that could define the ...

China’s application to launch more than 200,000 satellites reflects how space governance is shaped increasingly by commercial infrastructure — not the other way around.

Planned launch of 500,000 satellites could spoil about one in three Hubble images, even when the telescope stays above Earth's weather.

We are only a month into 2026, yet it’s already clear what one of the major space stories of the year is going to be: mega-constellations, and the ongoing attempts to launch thousands of satellites ...

On Monday morning, SpaceX launched one of its reusable rockets from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying 60 satellites into space at once. It was the second payload of Starlink, its planned constellation ...

The time between tracking failure and satellite collision has dropped to days, showing how fragile low Earth orbit has become.

The CRASH Clock is a new predictor of how much time there will be before a collision if a solar storm knocks out power and ...