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Sun's unpredictable outbursts are forcing satellites back to Earth sooner | Space debris on Earth is no longer a hypothetical, it's happening now
A 2.5-kilogram chunk of metal found on a Canadian farm in August 2024 has become a symbol of a growing dilemma in space exploration. The fragment –...
The big picture: The space industry faces a pressing question: How can thousands of satellites safely coexist with the sun's volatile outbursts? Denny Oliveira of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and his colleagues have studied the extent of this effect on Starlink satellites. "This is the easiest place in the world to find Starlink debris," she says, because the land is so flat and open, and it is under the densest part of satellite paths in the constellation.
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