The costly collateral damage from Elon Musk's Starlink satellite fleet
Wednesday, May 27, 2020 - 08:00
in Astronomy & Space
A colossal chess game of immense consequences is being fought in outer space, right now. On March 18 and April 22 2020, two rockets from SpaceX, owned by billionaire Elon Musk, each put 60 satellites into orbit. Those launches are but the sixth and seventh in a series intended to rapidly make 1,584 satellites available.