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#Satellites in Congressional action today.
The (reintroduced) Dark And Quiet Skies Act text is here: https://www.hickenlooper.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Dark-and-Quiet-Skies-Act-119th-Congress.pdf
#Space #SpaceEnvironment #DarkAndQuietSkies #Congress #UnitedStates
#Satellites in Congressional action today.
The (reintroduced) Dark And Quiet Skies Act text is here: https://www.hickenlooper.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Dark-and-Quiet-Skies-Act-119th-Congress.pdf
#Space #SpaceEnvironment #DarkAndQuietSkies #Congress #UnitedStates
Both Butler & Lopez Lang said having accurate #forecasts for #PolarVortex events can help make 7- to 10-day forecasts better, which can be beneficial for decision-making.
…As impactful as these polar vortex events are, scientists are losing some of their eyes on this layer of the atmosphere, Lopez Lang said.
#ClimateChange #ExtremeWeather #Trump #NaturalDisasters #PublicHealth #FEMA #NOAA #NationalGuard
#Satellites are crucial to observing the stratosphere & making predictions about sudden stratospheric warming events, she said, & some of that #data is blinking out as satellites age & #NOAA makes #budget & program decisions that affect the availability of current & future measurements. She cited some newly missing data from polar-orbiting satellites as an example.
#ClimateChange #ExtremeWeather #PolarVortex #Trump #NaturalDisasters #PublicHealth #FEMA #NationalGuard
This is an amazing app that allows you to see (almost) live all the #satellites and #debris (in LEO*) that are in #orbit above our heads.
You can pick one #satellite and get many info, including its orbit.
yeah, it's completely crowded, but we keep launching more and more #rockets 🚀 and much more satellites, like if our ressources were unlimited.
*LEO: low-Earth orbit (~300km up to 2000km)
This is an amazing app that allows you to see (almost) live all the #satellites and #debris (in LEO*) that are in #orbit above our heads.
You can pick one #satellite and get many info, including its orbit.
yeah, it's completely crowded, but we keep launching more and more #rockets 🚀 and much more satellites, like if our ressources were unlimited.
*LEO: low-Earth orbit (~300km up to 2000km)
Looks like the CME might have taken at least one satellite offline... (NASA VIIRS)
Dear LANCE-MODIS Users:
Currently, there is a S-NPP VIIRS data outage. No science data has been received since 11/11/25 11:36:50 UTC due to an anomaly at Fairbanks, impacting all S-NPP data processing. There is no time estimate for resolution of this issue right now, but we will send another email once we start receiving data and processing resume.
Regards,
lance-modis Users Support
Looks like the CME might have taken at least one satellite offline... (NASA VIIRS)
Dear LANCE-MODIS Users:
Currently, there is a S-NPP VIIRS data outage. No science data has been received since 11/11/25 11:36:50 UTC due to an anomaly at Fairbanks, impacting all S-NPP data processing. There is no time estimate for resolution of this issue right now, but we will send another email once we start receiving data and processing resume.
Regards,
lance-modis Users Support
" #SiliconValley isn’t building apps anymore.
It’s building empires."
"Under the banner of "patriotic tech", this new bloc is building the infrastructure of control—clouds, #AI, #finance, #drones, #satellites—an integrated system we call the #AuthoritarianStack. It is faster, ideological, and fully privatized: a regime where corporate boards, not public law, set the rules."
https://www.authoritarian-stack.info/
#Democracy #HumanRights #DigitalSovereignty #DigitalSelfdetermination
" #SiliconValley isn’t building apps anymore.
It’s building empires."
"Under the banner of "patriotic tech", this new bloc is building the infrastructure of control—clouds, #AI, #finance, #drones, #satellites—an integrated system we call the #AuthoritarianStack. It is faster, ideological, and fully privatized: a regime where corporate boards, not public law, set the rules."
https://www.authoritarian-stack.info/
#Democracy #HumanRights #DigitalSovereignty #DigitalSelfdetermination
Alarm Grows over Proposed Giant Mirrors in Orbit and Other Commercial Space Plans
November 6, 2025
Seeking Profits, Private Companies Look to Light up the Night Sky
Reflect Orbital’s plan to deliver “sunlight on demand” using thousands of giant orbital mirrors is just the latest in a growing list of disruptive commercial activities in space
(paywall)
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