Too many satellites? Earth’s orbit faces rising risk as megaconstellations grow https://english.mathrubhumi.com/technology/science/satellites-earth-orbit-risk-megaconstellations-dark-skies-impact-aj4ce68u?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #SpaceNews #Satellites #LowEarthOrbit #SpaceDebris #DarkSkies
#lowEarthOrbit
This #SpaceX Situation: Not Good!
by Jason Koebler, Feb 5, 2026
Excerpt: "There are many reasons that 'AI data centers in space' may be a pipe dream and may not happen, but what he is proposing is a magnitude of #SpaceJunk that no other company could plausibly promise to launch. Data centers or not, SpaceX is now dominating #LowEarthOrbit in a way no other company or country has. While Musk has been gutting the federal government, interfering in #elections, allowing people to generate #CSAM, engaging in white supremacy, planning trips to #EpsteinsIsland, implanting #chips into people’s brains, siphoning off taxpayer money to build ridiculous tunnels, giving his sperm to whoever will take it, turning his cars into experimental robot taxis, and pretending to build #HumanoidRobots, #SpaceX has somewhat (?) quietly #colonized and dominated low earth orbit.
"Musk has taken this space for his own use, concerns about #LightPollution, satellite collisions, and telecom #monopolies be damned. This has always been concerning, but explicitly intertwining the aspirations and fate of SpaceX with Musk’s CSAM generating social media website, his #AIBullshitMachines, and his right wing political project is horrifying and monopolistic. What happens next, I have no idea."
Read more:
https://www.404media.co/this-spacex-situation-not-good
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/vUubi
#TechBros #Technopoly #DarkSkies #SpacePollution #AISucks #DataCenters #SkyNet #KesslerEffect #KesslerSyndrome #USPol #WorldPol #SpaceNews #EpsteinFiles
Counterintuitively, ultra-low Earth Orbits are not about less sustainable, but rather about more sustainable and eco-friendly spaceflight. If done, right: which would mean real air-breathing thrusters, which could (theoretically) allow satellites to stay in low orbit indefinitely, without needing more propellant.
The problem with New Orbit startup is that while they declare this intention, their actual Aura thruster is xenon powered, so the demonstration mission won't actually be sustainable (as I understand it).
The low orbit has numerous advantages - eg. reducing impact on astronomy, because low flying satellites would pass overhead very quickly and most of the time would not be illuminated by sun. There is also zero risk of Kessler syndrome, because most satellites would re-enter quickly. But prolonged lifetime of such satellites is essential, to reduce dangerously high number of launches and re-entries.
https://neworbit.space/news/can-a-humble-startup-boldly-go-where-no-spacetech-has-gone-before
#SpaceX acquires #xAI, plans to launch a massive #SatelliteConstellation to power it
“This marks not just the next chapter, but the next book in SpaceX and xAI’s mission.”
Eric Berger – Feb 2, 2026
"SpaceX has formally acquired another one of Elon Musk’s companies, xAi, the space company announced on Monday afternoon.
“SpaceX has acquired xAI to form the most ambitious, vertically-integrated innovation engine on (and off) Earth, with AI, rockets, space-based internet, direct-to-mobile device communications and the world’s foremost real-time information and free speech platform,' the company said. 'This marks not just the next chapter, but the next book in SpaceX and xAI’s mission: scaling to make a sentient sun to understand the Universe and extend the light of consciousness to the stars!' [How much Special-K did you take, dude?]
"The merging of what is arguably Musk’s most successful company, SpaceX, with the more speculative xAI venture is a risk. Founded in 2023, xAI’s main products are the generative AI chatbot Grok and the social media site X, formerly known as Twitter. The company aims to compete with OpenAI and other artificial intelligence firms. However, Grok has been controversial, including the sexualization of women and children through AI-generated images, as has Musk’s management of Twitter."
#USPol #WorldPol #ElonSucks #SkyNet #AISucks #DarkSkies #SpacePollution #SatellitePollution #LowEarthOrbit #KesslerEffect #KesslerSyndrom
It's like #ElonMusk wants there to be a #KesslerEffect! Hard to launch a space program if we can't leave Earth!
#SpaceX seeks go-ahead from the #FCC to put up to a million #DataCenter satellites in orbit
by Alan Boyle on Jan 31, 2026
Excerpt: "SpaceX founder Elon Musk wasn’t kidding about his plans to go big with orbital data centers: The company is asking the Federal Communications Commission to approve a plan to put up to a million satellites in orbit to process data for artificial intelligence applications.
" 'Launching a constellation of a million satellites that operate as orbital data centers is a first step towards becoming a #Kardashev II-level civilization — one that can harness the sun’s full power — while supporting #AI-driven applications for billions of people today and ensuring humanity’s #multiplanetary future amongst the stars,' SpaceX said in an application filed with the FCC on Friday."
Read more:
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/spacex-fcc-million-data-center-satellites/
#AISatellites #SkyNet #DarkSkies #Starlink #LowEarthOrbit #LEO #KesslerSyndrome #SolarFlares #Grounded
Stört beim Sterngucken: Auch Amazons Leo-Konstellation 🛰️ zu hell für die #Forschung | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Stoert-beim-Sterngucken-Auch-Amazons-Leo-Konstellation-zu-hell-fuer-die-Forschung-11153450.html #Amazon #LowEarthOrbit #research
RE: https://scicomm.xyz/@JohnBarentine/115929568810746020
#Satellites in #Earth #orbit play a major role in everyday life on Earth and make the global #connectivity via our media possible in the first place. However, the increasing number of satellites in #lowEarthorbit (#LEO) can also #brighten the #nightsky in places and interfere with #astronomical #observations. Degen et al. (2026) recommend #retroreflective #coatings on satellites to #redirect #sunlight in order to reduce brightness.
©this text#StefanFWirth 2026
Oh great, more companies competing to hasten #KesslerSyndrome !
#Starlink-rival Eutelsat signs deal with Europe's #MaiaSpace to launch satellites
By Gianluca Lo Nostro
Fri, January 16, 2026 at 7:11 AM EST
"#Eutelsat, which acquired OneWeb in 2023, plans to launch 440 Airbus-built #LEO #satellites in the coming years to replenish and expand its constellation."
Read more:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/starlink-rival-eutelsat-signs-deal-121115488.html
#LEO #LowEarthOrbit #SpaceJunk #Satellites #KesslerEffect #DarkSkies #SpaceTrash
#Starlink satellites lift off on #SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral (video)
By Robert Z. Pearlman, Wednesday (Jan. 14).
Excerpt: "SpaceX added 29 more Starlink satellites to its low Earth orbit #megaconstellation today (Jan. 14).
"A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the broadband internet relay units launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Wednesday. The rocket reached its preliminary orbit about nine minutes after the 1:08 p.m. EST (1808 GMT) liftoff."
Read more / watch video:
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-starlink-6-98-1085-ccsfs-asog
#LEO #KesslerSyndrome #KesslerEffect #SpaceJunk #SpaceDebris #Satellites #LowEarthOrbit
UK’s Open Cosmos beats Thiel-backed Rivada to a European satellite licence.
UK satellite company Open Cosmos has won a Liechtenstein low-Earth orbit contract, a highly contested satellite spectrum licence, beating out companies backed by US tech billionaire Peter Thiel and Chinese investors.
You couldn't have used a better photo to explain the crisis being brought by #SatelliteConstellations ruining our #skies, our #astronomy, and our #future in #space.
#Musk #Starlink #satellites #communications #LowEarthOrbit #IAmDB
Can you say “Deconfliction”? The Risk of Satellite Collisions is going Parabolic – Not a good thing.
The latest TechAptitude post is is live - reviews the current state of Space Situational Awareness (SSA) and the growing risk of spacecraft collisions.
https://open.substack.com/pub/techaptitude/p/the-risk-of-satellite-collisions?r=vn8b8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true #Space #Satellites #SSA #SatelliteCollision #Deconfliction #TechAptitude #LowEarthOrbit
Tech giants and billionaire investors are racing to build data centers on the ground and in low‑Earth orbit. From SpaceX’s Starcloud to Google’s Aetherflux, the push could reshape cloud computing and satellite networks. How will this affect privacy, costs, and the future of the internet? Read the full story. #DataCenters #LowEarthOrbit #SpaceX #Starcloud
🔗 https://aidailypost.com/news/billionaires-push-data-centers-earth-lowearth-orbit
Elon Musk’s Taxpayer-Subsidized Starlink Yanks Cheaper $40 Plan Because Network Couldn’t Handle The Load
Yet another reason to hate #Starlink and other #Megaconstellations flooding #LowEarthOrbit:
- That shit severely harms the #ozone layer and I hope that reentries of satellites will be disallowed like blowing #CFC11!
Starcloud is taking generative AI to new heights—training massive LLMs aboard a low‑Earth‑orbit platform powered by NVIDIA H100 GPUs. The move promises to offload data‑center energy demand, a win for the International Energy Agency’s climate goals. Curious how orbital compute could reshape AI? Dive into the full story. #Starcloud #NVIDIAH100 #LLMs #LowEarthOrbit
🔗 https://aidailypost.com/news/starcloud-trains-llms-space-nvidia-h100-datacenter-energy-relief
Space‑based data centers are turning sunlight into power and the vacuum of low‑Earth orbit into natural cooling, letting AI workloads run without ground permits. Companies like Axiom Space, Kepler Communications and Skyloom Global are building orbital data centres linked by inter‑satellite links. Could the future of computing be up there? Read more. #AxiomSpace #OrbitalDataCenter #LowEarthOrbit #NaturalCooling
🔗 https://aidailypost.com/news/space-data-centers-companies-harness-sunlight-cooling-no-permits-ai
A commercial space station startup now has a foothold in space https://arstechni.ca/YS9E #Commercialspace #lowearthorbit #spacestation #bandwagon #haven-1 #spacex #Space #vast
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