SpaceX says it lost contact with a Starlink satellite after suffering an \u201canomaly.\u201d SpaceX isn\u2019t saying exactly what happened, but space-tracking company Leo Labs says it \u201cimmediately detected tens of objects in the vicinity\u201d of Starlink 34343 after the event.<\/p>\n
\u201cLatest analysis shows the event poses no new risk to the @Space_Station, its crew, or to the upcoming launch of NASA\u2019s Artemis II mission,\u201d says SpaceX<\/a> in a message posted to X. \u201cWe will continue to monitor the satellite along with any trackable debris and coordinate with @NASA and the @USSpaceForce.\u201d<\/p>\n The satellite and fragments are expected to burn up in the atmosphere within a few weeks. SpaceX says it is working to determine the root cause.<\/p>\n The latest mishap occurred at about 560km above the Earth, an increasingly crowded area<\/a> known as low Earth orbit where over 24,000 objects, including debris and about 10,000 Starlink satellites, are currently being tracked.<\/p>\n In January, SpaceX requested approval from the FCC for \u201cup to one million satellites<\/a>\u201d to create orbital data centers. \u201cWe just recently gave a request for FCC licensing of up to a million AI satellites,\u201d said SpaceX president and chief operating officer Gwynne Shotwell in a recent Time profile<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m surprised that didn\u2019t get more news. I thought for sure that would get a lot of news.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX says it lost contact with a Starlink satellite after suffering an \u201canomaly.\u201d SpaceX isn\u2019t saying exactly what…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":694502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[50,159,783,2527,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-694501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-space","11":"tag-spacex","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116323096205279546","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}