A WEEK IN ORBITAL HOARDING
08/2026
🌐️ CATALOGED OBJECTS IN ORBIT: 32,943 (+9)
🛰 Active spacecraft: 14,831 (+13)
💤 Nonoperational spacecraft: 3,008 (-2)
🚀 Rocket bodies: 2,399 (-2)
❓ Unknown objects: 62 (+1)
🗑️ Debris >10 cm: 12,643 (-1)
35 cataloged objects were officially confirmed as reentered since the last update.
#Orbit #Satcat #Satellite #SpaceDebris #SpaceJunk #OrbitalHoarding
@tamsin
Glad you asked 🙏🏻
I’d like to know this too (I’m in Australia; we have a history of receiving US space junk - our continent is seen as entirely empty by some).
"Vandenberg SFB Launch Alert
The U.S. Space Force has approved the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Starlink 17-34 mission to low-Earth orbit, Wednesday, February 11, 2026, between 6:07 a.m. - 10:07 a.m. PT from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4)."
Tonight Zoe Tenacci of Astroscale comes to talk to the #Oxford #CaféScientifique about how to decongest the near-Earth orbits of the various bits of #spaceJunk now orbiting us.
The #Space Sweepers Cleaning the Orbital Highway
http://www.rowingservice.com/cafescientifique/oxford/ #science #event
🌌 Above us, an invisible constellation grows. Not of stars, but of our own making: fragments racing through the dark at unfathomable speeds, each piece a ghost of ambition turned hazard.
✍️ Explore the cascade we cannot see 🛰️: https://TPC8.short.gy/IZaOxCi5
💫 What we send skyward returns as legacy, sometimes circling for decades or longer in silent judgment.
#SpaceDebris #space #spacejunk #OrbitalEcology #SpaceSustainability #Astronomy #Science #SpacePolicy #KesslerSyndrome #TPC8
A WEEK IN ORBITAL HOARDING
07/2026
🌐️ CATALOGED OBJECTS IN ORBIT: 32,934 (+68)
🛰 Active spacecraft: 14,818 (+58)
💤 Nonoperational spacecraft: 3,010 (+5)
🚀 Rocket bodies: 2,401 (+1)
❓ Unknown objects: 61 (+8)
🗑️ Debris >10 cm: 12,644 (-4)
34 cataloged objects were officially confirmed as reentered since the last update.
#Orbit #Satcat #Satellite #SpaceDebris #SpaceJunk #OrbitalHoarding
This #SpaceX Situation: Not Good!
by Jason Koebler, Feb 5, 2026
Excerpt: "There are many reasons that 'AI data centers in space' may be a pipe dream and may not happen, but what he is proposing is a magnitude of #SpaceJunk that no other company could plausibly promise to launch. Data centers or not, SpaceX is now dominating #LowEarthOrbit in a way no other company or country has. While Musk has been gutting the federal government, interfering in #elections, allowing people to generate #CSAM, engaging in white supremacy, planning trips to #EpsteinsIsland, implanting #chips into people’s brains, siphoning off taxpayer money to build ridiculous tunnels, giving his sperm to whoever will take it, turning his cars into experimental robot taxis, and pretending to build #HumanoidRobots, #SpaceX has somewhat (?) quietly #colonized and dominated low earth orbit.
"Musk has taken this space for his own use, concerns about #LightPollution, satellite collisions, and telecom #monopolies be damned. This has always been concerning, but explicitly intertwining the aspirations and fate of SpaceX with Musk’s CSAM generating social media website, his #AIBullshitMachines, and his right wing political project is horrifying and monopolistic. What happens next, I have no idea."
Read more:
https://www.404media.co/this-spacex-situation-not-good
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/vUubi
#TechBros #Technopoly #DarkSkies #SpacePollution #AISucks #DataCenters #SkyNet #KesslerEffect #KesslerSyndrome #USPol #WorldPol #SpaceNews #EpsteinFiles
French prosecutors have asked Elon Musk to appear for questioning following a police raid on the offices of the social media network X in Paris. The French probe comes on the heels of a U.K. investigation into Musk’s AI tool Grok over its “potential to produce harmful sexualized image and video content.” Last month, the European Union also launched an investigation into sexual deepfakes created by Grok. “It’s a part of a kind of a pushback that we’re seeing now against Musk that’s probably more forceful than anything we’ve seen to date,” says Quinn Slobodian, professor of international history at Boston University and author of the upcoming book Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed.
@VisualStuart
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turn *all* of the satellites orbiting earth into a disastrous cloud of debris
oh, so that's why we have never gottem laser signals from any #exoplanets because their planet "progressed" to be inside a #spacejunk sphere
example of space test laser
https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/03/straight-out-of-sci-fi-earth-receives-a-deep-space-laser-message-from-16-million-kilometers-away/
@tadbithuman
Thx 4 orig Stuart boost
NASA has just pulled off a breakthrough that could change space communication forever. A deep-space laser transmission has traveled an astonishing distance, surpassing anything done before.
DarkSky International opposes Reflect Orbital’s proposed orbital illumination system. DarkSky has issued an open letter to Reflect Orbital and its investors, which they invite to sign.
https://darksky.org/news/organizational-statement-reflect-orbital/
#LightPollution #DarkSky #SpaceJunk #astronomy #astrophotography
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