That number will likely continue growing far into the future; SpaceX has permission to deploy 12,000 Starlink satellites in LEO and has applied for approval for another 30,000 on top of that. Join our Space Forums to keep talking space on the latest missions, night sky and more! And if...
Light pollution in my area leaves the visible sky at a magnitude 3. I have to drive at least an hour and a half to get to a site to see. When we had the Northeast power outage, I spent most of the night explaining what “that thin, white, streaky cloud across the sky is”. ...
EST tonight (0325 GMT on Feb. 15), Russia will send the robotic Progress 87 freighter toward the International Space Station from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan atop a Soyuz rocket. And SpaceX plans to launch IM-1, a private moon-landing mission, on Feb. 15 at 1:05 a.m. EST (...
The Starlink launch is part of a very busy stretch in spaceflight. Rocket Lab plans to launch a NASA climate cubesat tonight, for example, and Boeing's Starliner capsule is scheduled to lift off with astronauts aboard for the first time ever tomorrow afternoon (June 1). And, tomorrow evening...