More than 10,000 Starlink satellites currently orbit the Earth.
We see them crawling across dark skies, no matter how remote our location, and streaking through images from research telescopes.
SpaceX recently announced that it wants to launch
one million more of these satellites
as orbital data centres for AI computing power.
A few years ago, we wrote a paper predicting what the night sky would look like with 65,000 satellites from four planned megaconstellatio…
Brilliant stealth signal method bypassing blackouts in Iran -- great piece about 'Toosheh' and how it works: #Iran
Assimilation of Ground and Satellite Magnetic Observations Unravels the Ionospheric, Magnetospheric, and Induced Fields During the May and October 2024 #GeomagneticStorms: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025GL116964 -> How does an ice satellite detect a geomagnetic storm? https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/FutureEO/CryoSat/How_does_an_ice_satellite_detect_a_geomagnetic_storm
Radiative Forcing and Ozone Depletion of a Decade of Satellite #Megaconstellation Missions: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025EF007229 -> Satellite launch pollution rapidly accumulating in the upper atmosphere: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2026/may/satellite-launch-pollution-rapidly-accumulating-upper-atmosphere
Starlink-Konkurrenz: Amazon will Globalstar übernehmen
Amazon übernimmt den Satellitenkommunikationsanbieter Globalstar, der zu 20 Prozent Apple gehört. Damit beschleunigt Amazon seine Leo-Satellitenpläne.
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Uber testet Lucid-Robotaxis in San Francisco
Anfang des Jahres stellten Lucid Motors, Nuro und Uber eine Robotaxi-Version des Lucid Gravity vor. Jetzt testen Uber-Beschäftigte das Fahrzeug.
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