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In the third launch of its larger New Glenn rocket, and the first time Blue Origin had attempted to re-use a booster, it failed to place its payload into an effective orbit. Now, the satellite will need to be de-orbited, TechCrunch reports. Although the company in question has many more …

The Jeff Bezos-backed rocket company Blue Origin has announced it’s building a new broadband internet satellite constellation that will offer something even Starlink can’t match: the fastest internet in the world. With projected speeds of up to 6Tbps for both upload and download, it would offer internet connectivity orders of …

Rocket Labs has launched its Electron small launch vehicle over 60 times over the past seven years, and CEO Peter Beck has been talking up its viability as a direct competitor for the likes of SpaceX in the small satellite space. He claims that while other companies with larger rockets …

In the weeks since SpaceX resumed Falcon 9 launches, the workhorse rocket has lifted off 11 times, all of which have been complete successes. In the most recent Friday (Aug. 16) launch, SpaceX delivered 116 small payloads to orbit, including the Tanager-1 satellite. This is the first orbital asset of …

A defunct Russian satellite broke up this week, sending a cloud of dangerous debris zipping around Earth. Skywatchers identified more than 100 pieces of space junk spreading out from the satellite’s former location, causing astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) to shelter in various spacecraft, including the troubled Boeing …

Researchers in Japan have finished building the world’s first wooden satellite. Called LignoSat—a reference to lignin, wood’s chief organic polymer—the satellite represents a potential solution to the space industry’s growing debris problem.Space junk is such a pervasive problem that it’s becoming more space junk and tricking people into believing they’ve …

When space agencies launch satellites into orbit, they have to worry about more than just the satellite’s data-gathering efficacy: Cost and end-of-life are also significant concerns. It costs tens of millions of dollars to build and launch a single satellite, and when the satellite’s job is done, it needs to …

SpaceX is the world’s largest satellite operator with thousands of Starlink internet nodes in its orbital constellation, and you can add 150 more to the tally. SpaceX has informed regulators that it’s buying a satellite internet startup called Swarm. This firm focuses on so-called “nano satellites” for IoT applications, but …

  For years, satellite internet has been a last resort for people living in remote areas. SpaceX has made waves offering its new Starlink service to select regions with much higher speeds than traditional satellite connections — testers are reporting as much as 150Mbps down. Amazon thinks it can do …

  SpaceX has been launching batches of Starlink internet satellites on a regular basis since May 2019, and there are now hundreds of nodes in its megaconstellation. That provides sufficient coverage that SpaceX has started rolling out a beta test of its new satellite internet service. According to data from …