Orbiting observatories were supposed to escape the glow and clutter that plague ground-based astronomy, but the next ...

The NRO has launched 11 missions since May 2024 to build out the proliferated LEO constellation. The latest, NROL-148, was ...

Satellite mega constellations promise faster connectivity but threaten astronomy, as thousands of satellites brighten skies, ...

Fleets of satellites interfere with snapshots taken by Earth-bound observatories. But a new study suggests these orbiters ...

“If you exclude Starlink from that opportunity, and you look at everything else, SpaceX is still launching 50% of all ...

Satellite constellations are a relatively new threat to astronomy; prior to the drop in launch costs driven by SpaceX’s ...