3 entries tagged satellites. All writing.
TECHNOLOGY · OCTOBER 8, 2026 Starlink Mobile just bought the spectrum that goes through walls SpaceX agreed to buy 14 MHz of paired 800 MHz spectrum from Grain Management, the missing low-band layer Starlink Mobile needs to reach indoors. Here is what was actually bought, why 800 MHz matters, and what is still unproven. TECHNOLOGY · OCTOBER 7, 2026 Has the First Space War Already Started? What the 2026 Orbital Breakups Actually Show A viral post says "the First Space War has already started and they're just not telling us." The evidence behind it is a run of fragmentation events logged by the tracking firm LeoLabs, the latest on 5 October 2026. Here is what was detected, what can and can't be told from tracking data, and what would separate an accident from an attack. TECHNOLOGY · SEPTEMBER 12, 2026 Antarctica Gained 695 Billion Tons of Ice, and the Reason Was Seven Thousand Kilometres Away Between July 2021 and April 2023 the Antarctic ice sheet got heavier by about 695 billion tons — the largest gain in the twenty-four-year satellite-gravity record. A paper in Nature traces it to a warm patch of tropical ocean that bent the atmosphere over East Antarctica and turned it into a snow funnel. The headline is a gift to anyone who wants to misread it. The paper is not: two decades of losses at 140 billion tons a year are still there, and the gain is a weather event, not a trend.