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Mars_B4_Moon

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FCC authorizes SpaceX to provide mobile Starlink internet service to boats, planes and trucks

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/30/fcc-app … lanes.html

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'Of the 260 Starlink satellites that have reentered so far, we have reentry locations for 102. This plot illustrates that the locations are random, consistent with the fact that the final week of their orbital decay and reentry is uncontrolled'

https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1 … 3285052416

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SpaceX and T-Mobile partner for direct-to-cellphone satellite service

https://spacenews.com/spacex-and-t-mobi … e-service/

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Light Pollution?

Hubble’s Orbit Has Dropped So Far that Starlink Satellites are Photobombing its Images

https://www.universetoday.com/160405/hu … ts-images/

Astronomy is poised for another leap. In the next several years, major ground-based telescopes will come online, including the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT,) the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT,) the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT,) and the Vera Rubin Observatory. The combined power of these telescopes will help drive discovery in the next couple of decades.

But something threatens to undermine astronomical observing in the coming years: Starlink and other internet satellite constellations.

Now a group of astronomers have shown that even the Hubble can’t escape the satellite problem.

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SpaceX Explains Why Starlink Maps Don't Match FCC Broadband Maps

https://uk.pcmag.com/networking/145762/ … dband-maps

What’s Next: The Future of NASA’s Laser Communications
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/20 … unications
NASA uses lasers to send information to and from Earth, employing invisible beams to traverse the skies, sending terabytes of data – pictures and videos – to increase our knowledge of the universe. This capability is known as laser, or optical, communications, even though these eye-safe, infrared beams can’t be seen by human eyes.

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Amazon launches test satellites in challenge to Musk's Starlink

https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Amaz … k_999.html

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Elon Musk's SpaceX On Fire: 50 Launches Done Before Halfway Through Year, 94 More To Go

Why It Matters: CEO Elon Musk has said the company is aiming for 12 launches per month in 2024, totaling 144 launches. However, to touch the targeted 144 launches, the company will have to ramp up the number of launches in the upcoming months.
For the entirety of 2023, SpaceX only completed 96 launches, marking a 57% year-on-year increase, not including two Starship test flights. The company's launch numbers have been steadily increasing, with 26 launches in 2020, 31 in 2021, and 61 in 2022.