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Topic: Satellites

Render of Planet Earth. (DrPixel / Getty Images)

NASA closer to predicting space weather

Elizabeth Howell
A small town glows beneath a starry sky. (harpazo_hope / Getty Images)

Creatures of the night, unite

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Seine et Marne on march the 6th 2021 at night. Taurus constellation. On this image we can see the effect of the movements of artificial satellites through the sky. On the left we can see the planet Mars, on the right the famous stars cluster the Pleiades (M45). From the bottom right the luminous trail of the satellite STARLINK-1269, and from the top the luminous trail of the satellite STARLINK-1577. (Christophe Lehenaff / Getty Images)

Satellites are censoring the stars

Carlyn Zwarenstein
This handout photo taken and released by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on December 5, 2024, shows the launch of PSLV-C59 carrying two satellites of European Space Agency (ESA) Proba-3 spacecraft from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. (Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)/AFP via Getty Images)

Satellites launched to create eclipses

Matthew Rozsa
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a payload of 20 Starlink internet satellites into space soars across the sky after sunset above the Pacific Ocean after launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base on June 18, 2024, as seen from San Diego, California. (Kevin Carter/Getty Images)

SpaceX pulls off a double-header

Rae Hodge
Logo of NASA is displayed on mobile phone screen in front of Blue Origin icon on February 27, 2023. (Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Going to space? Fly at your own risk

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Aiming the A&M 80mm refractor on the Astro-Tech Voyager mount at the Milky Way with its laser pointer finder showing the way. (Alan Dyer/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Satellites are ruining space exploration

Samantha Lawler - The Conversation
Planet Earth with a pile of garbage spilling into outer space (Getty Images/urfinguss)

The "enshittification" of tech in space

Rae Hodge
Galactic trash orbiting Earth (Getty Images/janiecbros)

The place where satellites go to die

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Satellite Orbiting Earth (Getty Images/3DSculptor)

Private satellites repurposed for war

Eric Schank
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the seventh batch of 60 Starlink satellites which will provide global internet service stands ready for launch on April 22, 2020 at Kennedy Space Center's pad 39A. (Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

SpaceX satellites destroyed by storm

Matthew Rozsa
A rendering showing ELSA-d's concept of operations. The mission aims to demonstrate technology that could help clear space debris. (Astroscale)

Meet Earth's satellite janitor, ELSA-d

Nicole Karlis
The Infrared Astronomical Satellite, or IRAS, was the first mission to put a telescope in space to survey the sky in infrared. (NASA)

When satellites collide

Nicole Karlis
The United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II rocket is seen as it launches with the NASA Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) onboard, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018, Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The ICESat-2 mission will measure the changing height of Earth's ice. (NASA/Bill Ingalls/Getty Images)

Satellites: sentinels of a grim future

Jon Gertner - Undark
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying 60 Starlink satellites on November 11, 2019 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Starlink constellation will eventually consist of thousands of satellites designed to provide world wide high-speed internet service. (Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Why Elon Musk is infuriating astronomers

Nicole Karlis
Jerry Brown (AP/Eric Risberg)

California to launch a satellite

Nathanael Johnson, Rebecca Leber - Grist
Earth (AP/NASA)

Many satellites restrict climate data

Mariel Borowitz - The Conversation
(AP/NASA)

Oldest human object in space

Alice Gorman - The Conversation
The IMAGE spacecraft undergoing launch preparations in early 2000. (NASA)

Amateur astronomer finds lost satellite

Gabriel Bell
A flooded area after the passing of Hurricane Maria, in Puerto Rico, September 27, 2017. (AP/Carlos Giusti)

Puerto Rico's big companies won't help

Dave Lindorff
This Nov. 10, 2016 aerial photo released by NASA, shows a rift in the Antarctic Peninsula's Larsen C ice shelf. (John Sonntag/NASA via AP)

Tracking ice by satellite

Brian Kahn - Climate Central
In this image released by SpaceX, an unmanned Falcon rocket lifts off from from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Friday, May 27, 2016, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The first stage of the unmanned Falcon rocket settled onto a barge 400 miles off the Florida coast, eight minutes after liftoff, It's the third successful booster landing at sea for the California-based SpaceX. This one came after the rocket launched an Asian communications satellite. (SpaceX via AP) (AP)

Matthew Rozsa

Alex Halperin