12 stories tagged satellites, newest first.
58 points by pantalaimon | 56 comments
Google blog post announcing that its Project Suncatcher prototype satellite, built with Planet, launched on SpaceX Transporter-18 to test TPUs in orbit.
45 points by GordonS | 9 comments
SciTechDaily article on a new satellite engine concept that would use atmospheric gases as propellant, letting satellites in very low orbit stay up indefinitely.
44 points by whh | 16 comments
The Register article on astronomer Tony Phillips of spaceweather.com using Starlink satellites' orbital decay to measure atmospheric expansion as a 'planetary barometer'.
41 points by sbulaev | 41 comments
Ars Technica article reporting that Google's first Suncatcher orbital data center test, carrying four TPUs and running 15 minutes at a time, launches October 1.
212 points by xnx | 460 comments
Google blog post introducing a video series on Project Suncatcher, its moonshot effort to scale AI compute with infrastructure in space, and the engineering challenges ahead.
![Screenshot of osti.gov: Calculating atmospheric drag on satellites for a Cubesat [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/9/26/ff5790bb-cd43-4c52-92ef-171b8d418a69.jpg)
31 points by walrus01 | 7 comments
A 2010 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory technical report (LLNL-TR-453771) by W. de Vries on calculating atmospheric drag for Cubesat satellites.
8 points by NKosmatos | 2 comments
A Spaceweather.com explainer on using orbital drag data from Starlink satellites to measure changes in upper-atmosphere density, effectively a planetary barometer.
136 points by thm | 177 comments
BBC News article reporting that the UK military, via UK Space Command, jams other nations' satellites as a defensive measure.
456 points by everfrustrated | 296 comments
Rocket Lab investor relations press release announcing its deal to acquire satellite communications company Iridium.
405 points by mimorigasaka | 211 comments
arXiv paper analyzing and identifying a space-based GNSS interference source causing wide-area interference events over Europe, Greenland, and Canada since 2019.
1035 points by ajyoon | 1222 comments
A CivAI blog post by Andrew Yoon arguing that proposals by SpaceX/xAI, Google and startups to put AI data centers in orbit make no sense.
434 points by mindracer | 367 comments
Blog post arguing that AI companies' plans to build datacenters in space with satellite launch partners are impractical and won't work.