{"id":2373,"date":"2026-03-31T10:33:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T10:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/owspakistan.com\/?p=2373"},"modified":"2026-03-31T10:33:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T10:33:14","slug":"another-starlink-satellite-has-inexplicably-exploded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/owspakistan.com\/?p=2373","title":{"rendered":"Another Starlink satellite has inexplicably exploded"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">SpaceX says it lost contact with a Starlink satellite after suffering an \u201canomaly.\u201d SpaceX isn\u2019t saying exactly what happened, but space-tracking company Leo Labs says it \u201cimmediately detected tens of objects in the vicinity\u201d of Starlink 34343 after the event.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201cLatest analysis shows the event poses no new risk to the @Space_Station, its crew, or to the upcoming launch of NASA\u2019s Artemis II mission,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Starlink\/status\/2038635185118588973\">says SpaceX<\/a> in a message posted to X. \u201cWe will continue to monitor the satellite along with any trackable debris and coordinate with @NASA and the @USSpaceForce.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The satellite and fragments are expected to burn up in the atmosphere within a few weeks. SpaceX says it is working to determine the root cause.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The latest mishap occurred at about 560km above the Earth, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/space\/657113\/starlink-amazon-satellites\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">increasingly crowded area<\/a> known as low Earth orbit where over 24,000 objects, including debris and about 10,000 Starlink satellites, are currently being tracked.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">In January, SpaceX requested approval from the FCC for \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/871641\/spacex-fcc-1-million-solar-powered-data-centers-satellites-orbit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">up to one million satellites<\/a>\u201d to create orbital data centers. \u201cWe just recently gave a request for FCC licensing of up to a million AI satellites,\u201d said SpaceX president and chief operating officer Gwynne Shotwell in a <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/article\/2026\/03\/26\/spacex-gwynne-shotwell-full-interview\/#:~:text=I%20don\u2019t%20think,towards%20the%20goal.%C2%A0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent <em>Time<\/em> profile<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m surprised that didn\u2019t get more news. I thought for sure that would get a lot of news.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX says it lost contact with a Starlink satellite after suffering an \u201canomaly.\u201d SpaceX isn\u2019t saying exactly what happened, but space-tracking company Leo Labs says it \u201cimmediately detected tens of objects in the vicinity\u201d of Starlink 34343 after the event. \u201cLatest analysis shows the event poses no new risk to the @Space_Station, its crew, or<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45,47,284,41,62,427,289,5,940,941,51,109],"tags":[89,97,938,939],"class_list":["post-2373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai","category-ai-coding-assistant","category-ai-regulation","category-artificial-intelligence","category-news","category-openai","category-pro-ai-pacs","category-science","category-space","category-spacex","category-tech","category-technology","tag-news","tag-science","tag-space","tag-spacex"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/owspakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/owspakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/owspakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owspakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owspakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/owspakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owspakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/owspakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owspakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owspakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}