Elon Musk’s SpaceX is set to massively expand its orbital footprint in a bid to power next-generation artificial intelligence

The company is planning ways to meet the energy and computing needs of AI, even as the company mulls a merger with xAI.

SpaceX wants to use a satellite network to ease the pressure on current data centers placed on terra firma.

Low-Earth orbit is more crowded—and fragile—than it looks. Satellites constantly weave past each other, burning fuel and making dozens of evasive maneuvers every year just to stay safe. A major solar storm could disable navigation and communications,

With satellites and space junk increasingly cluttering our planet’s low Earth orbit, a team of scientists warn that this entire region could suddenly collapse into a destructive maelstrom of swirling debris, posing a threat to any spacecraft that dares to venture up there, and hurling dangerous missiles of space junk down onto our planet below.

SpaceX has submitted a daring proposal to the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to launch a constellation of up to one million satellites int.

Ground-based observations suggest the former geostationary inspector satellite suffered a fragmentation event months after retirement, raising new concerns about debris in high Earth orbit.

Low Earth orbit now holds thousands of satellites, and the count keeps rising. That growth has made space feel roomy in theory, but tight in practice.

Developers of wildfire-detection satellites are moving beyond raw data delivery, adding tools that show firefighters and researchers when satellites will actually pass over the areas they are watching.

Russian Luch “inspector” satellites are suspected of shadowing European GEO spacecraft, raising fears of interception, jamming, and orbital risk.