ON MAY 24TH 2019 a Falcon 9 rocket built by SpaceX launched 60 communication satellites into a low orbit around the Earth. That evening they appeared as a string of sunlit dots moving across the sky, ...

The rise of vast satellite constellations like SpaceX’s Starlink has driven up the risk of collisions. (EPA images pic) Hundreds of US companies today urged congress to back off a plan to kill a small ...

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WASHINGTON: Hundreds of U.S. companies on Tuesday urged Congress to back off a plan to kill a small federal office tasked with managing satellite traffic in space, a badly needed civilian effort ...