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.

Starlink already accounts for 40% of all the satellites ever launched, and each one releases harmful aluminum oxides when deorbited.

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 ...

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 ...

Starlink satellites can reflect sunlight and be surprisingly bright. This will have an impact on visual observation of the cosmos, simply because they'll be visually getting in the way.

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

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 49 Starlink internet satellites to orbit on Feb. 3, 2022. (Image credit: SpaceX) According to the letter, NASA has significant concerns about whether or not ...

SpaceX has agreed to mitigate the impact of its Starlink broadband satellites on ground-based astronomy facilities. NSF has outlined a new agreement it signed with SpaceX to protect ground-based ...

Starlink satellites are making thousands of avoidance maneuvers as low Earth orbit becomes more crowded, feeding worries that a catastrophic impact is inevitable. SpaceX’s orbital communication ...

A newly published study from researchers at the University of California (Department of Physics and Astronomy) has found that ...