"Vandenberg SFB Launch Alert

The U.S. Space Force has approved the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Starlink 17-34 mission to low-Earth orbit, Wednesday, February 11, 2026, between 6:07 a.m. - 10:07 a.m. PT from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4)."

#sonicboom #rocket #launch #vandenberg #spacejunk

Tonight Zoe Tenacci of Astroscale comes to talk to the #Oxford #CaféScientifique about how to decongest the near-Earth orbits of the various bits of #spaceJunk now orbiting us.

The #Space Sweepers Cleaning the Orbital Highway

http://www.rowingservice.com/cafescientifique/oxford/ #science #event

🌌 Above us, an invisible constellation grows. Not of stars, but of our own making: fragments racing through the dark at unfathomable speeds, each piece a ghost of ambition turned hazard.

✍️ Explore the cascade we cannot see 🛰️: https://TPC8.short.gy/IZaOxCi5

💫 What we send skyward returns as legacy, sometimes circling for decades or longer in silent judgment.

#SpaceDebris #space #spacejunk #OrbitalEcology #SpaceSustainability #Astronomy #Science #SpacePolicy #KesslerSyndrome #TPC8

A WEEK IN ORBITAL HOARDING
07/2026

🌐️ CATALOGED OBJECTS IN ORBIT: 32,934 (+68)
🛰 Active spacecraft: 14,818 (+58)
💤 Nonoperational spacecraft: 3,010 (+5)
🚀 Rocket bodies: 2,401 (+1)
❓ Unknown objects: 61 (+8)
🗑️ Debris >10 cm: 12,644 (-4)

34 cataloged objects were officially confirmed as reentered since the last update.

#Orbit #Satcat #Satellite #SpaceDebris #SpaceJunk #OrbitalHoarding

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

Elon #Musk Under Fire for #Epstein Links, Grok’s Sexualized #AI Deepfakes & SpaceX-xAI Merger
#ElonMusk #X #Twitter #Technology #BigTech #MeToo #Grok #UsPol #InternationalPolitics #SpaceX #xAI #GlobalPolitics #ChildAbuse #Trump #SpaceJunk #satellite #satellites
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/2/5/quinn_slobodian_muskism_twitter_x_grok

@VisualStuart
RE
turn *all* of the satellites orbiting earth into a disastrous cloud of debris

oh, so that's why we have never gottem laser signals from any #exoplanets because their planet "progressed" to be inside a #spacejunk sphere

example of space test laser
https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/03/straight-out-of-sci-fi-earth-receives-a-deep-space-laser-message-from-16-million-kilometers-away/

@tadbithuman
Thx 4 orig Stuart boost

DarkSky International opposes Reflect Orbital’s proposed orbital illumination system. DarkSky has issued an open letter to Reflect Orbital and its investors, which they invite to sign.

https://darksky.org/news/organizational-statement-reflect-orbital/

#LightPollution #DarkSky #SpaceJunk #astronomy #astrophotography

A WEEK IN ORBITAL HOARDING
06/2026

🌐️ CATALOGED OBJECTS IN ORBIT: 32,866 (+28)
🛰 Active spacecraft: 14,760 (+32)
💤 Nonoperational spacecraft: 3,005 (+3)
🚀 Rocket bodies: 2,400 (-2)
❓ Unknown objects: 53 (+1)
🗑️ Debris >10 cm: 12,648 (-6)

34 cataloged objects were officially confirmed as reentered since the last update.

#Orbit #Satcat #Satellite #SpaceDebris #SpaceJunk #OrbitalHoarding

“#Melbourne based #astronomers say the object was unlikely to a meteor, but #SpaceJunk. #MonashUniversity Associate Professor #MichaelBrown identified the object as #Starlink satellite 5103.”

Oligarch externalities raining down to earth 🌏 ☄️

#Elonovitch / #Melbourne / #skies <https://abc.net.au/news/2026-02-03/bright-light-seen-in-victorian-skies-not-meteor-but-space-debris/106298226>

Alt text:

Man with backpack standing in the middle of a two-lane road in the middle of nowhere watching one of millions of #spaceJunk burn into the atmosphere and releasing toxic materials. He's a graduate trainee at #ESA, tasked with counting the pieces of space junk that reenter the atmosphere per hour, and knowing that his contribution may end up in a publication, but nothing will be done to fix the problem.

His father too was involved in researching #climateChange early on.

#darkHumor

👀

"... Britain prepares emergency alert amid fears over Chinese space junk

Government experts are monitoring debris from rocket, which is due to enter atmosphere on Friday ...

Mobile networks have been asked to check the UK’s emergency alert system over concerns that fragments of a Chinese rocket could land in Britain.,," 01/29/2026

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/29/emergency-alert-check-chinese-space-junk-crash-britain/

#spacejunk #disasters #space

Whoop!
I wonder if people in southern Sweden were wearing helmets one hour ago?

Warning about space junk potentially falling over certain areas just now...
#space #spacejunk #satellites

Orbital House of Cards – CRASH Clock Metric

Researchers have updated the possibility that satellites in low earth orbit (LEO) could collapse after accidental collisions quickly cascade into a vicious cycle where initial collisions create a huge vortex of dangerous space debris, which creates even more collisions, and then even more collisions – just like a massive vehicle pileup on an ice covered interstate highway…this cascading collision scenario is known as the Kessler syndrome.

The researchers propose a new metric, the CRASH Clock, that measures the timescale for a possible Kessler like scenario to occur after a severe loss of space situational awareness. They propose the CRASH Clock is currently 5.5 days, which is the window of opportunity to recover/stop a wide spread cascading collision event. https://futurism.com/space/earths-lower-orbit-rapidly-collapse

DL full paper here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09643 #Space #Satellites #LEO #KesslerSyndrome #Kessler #SpaceCraft #CrashClock #SatelliteCollision #SpaceJunk

A WEEK IN ORBITAL HOARDING
05/2026

🌐️ CATALOGED OBJECTS IN ORBIT: 32,838 (+130)
🛰 Active spacecraft: 14,728 (+137)
💤 Nonoperational spacecraft: 3,002
🚀 Rocket bodies: 2,402 (-2)
❓ Unknown objects: 52 (-1)
🗑️ Debris >10 cm: 12,654 (-4)

20 cataloged objects were officially confirmed as reentered since the last update.

#Orbit #Satcat #Satellite #SpaceDebris #SpaceJunk #OrbitalHoarding

Mapping the re-entry of space debris with seismometers recording sonic booms:

(gift link)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/science/space-junk-seismographs.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVA.GHdM.t1dg9zjZfksH&smid=url-share

#SpaceJunk

Bezos’s Blue Origin announces plans to deploy thousands of satellites in 2027 | Jeff Bezos | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/21/blue-origin-satellites-2027-jeff-bezos

Absolute madness! Talk about space junk and the danger of collisions.....

#Satellites #SpaceJunk

@sundogplanets “This Starlink satellite crashed in the easiest place in the world to find space debris. Is that near your house?”

#MastoClickBait #Space #spacejunk

A WEEK IN ORBITAL HOARDING
04/2026

🌐️ CATALOGED OBJECTS IN ORBIT: 32,708 (+21)
🛰 Active spacecraft: 14,591 (+33)
💤 Nonoperational spacecraft: 3,002 (-2)
🚀 Rocket bodies: 2,404 (+3)
❓ Unknown objects: 53 (+1)
🗑️ Debris >10 cm: 12,658 (-14)

30 cataloged objects were officially confirmed as reentered since the last update.

#Orbit #Satcat #Satellite #SpaceDebris #SpaceJunk #OrbitalHoarding

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