By Sean Mowbray The skies overhead are already teeming with satellites. But their orbiting numbers will skyrocket in the near ...

The company deorbited about 2.6 satellites per day between December and May, causing them to burn up in the atmosphere. It's unclear how or if this might impact the environment.

Without conducting studies, Ryan says, the FCC can't confirm that projects like Starlink have no significant environmental impact. That means it could be violating NEPA when it applies the ...

FCC defends Starlink approval as Viasat, ... astronomers and other scientists concerned about light pollution and other environmental impacts of satellite constellations.") ...

Behind Starlink's promise to ... Launching thousands of satellites into space is not a trivial matter and will inevitably one day have a significant impact on the environment. Indeed, each ...

TAMPA, Fla. — Evidence is mounting of a need to perform an environmental review before approving SpaceX’s plans to add nearly 30,000 satellites to its Starlink constellation, satellite ...

In the new petition, filed December 22, Viasat asked the FCC to study the potential impacts of Starlink through processes established by the National Environmental Policy Act.

Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites could damage the Earth’s protective ozone layer when they are deorbited, new research suggests. Mega satellite constellations such as SpaceX’s Starlink spew ...

Live updates from SpaceX's Starlink 10-28 mission that launched a Falcon 9 rocket Tuesday, July 8, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

The scheduling system used by Starlink also impacts its performance. The network relies on 15-second reconfiguration intervals to update and modify user connectivity.

Starlink gets slower in Canada, too. In Canada, Starlink's Q3 2022 median download speeds were 65.8Mbps, upload speeds were 9.2Mbps, and latency was 77 ms.

SpaceX is planning a mega-constellation of thousands of internet satellites called Starlink. But the FCC didn't perform an environmental review.