China has left 27 Long March 6A upper stages in orbit since 2022. Not one has come down
The satellite catalogue holds a rocket body from every Long March 6A flight since March 2022. All 27 are still up, and 22 sit above 600km, where a spent stage stays for centuries.
The satellite catalogue ran out of five-digit numbers. A docked Soyuz is now invisible to the old TLE format
The US Space Force catalogue crossed into six digits on 11 July, and the two-line element set — the format most tracking software still reads — has no room for them. Ask for the space stations as TLEs and the crew ferry is missing.
Federal agencies now get three days to patch. CISA’s own catalogue shows the deadline started tightening months before the rule that set it
A binding directive issued on 10 June replaced a patch clock that had been almost exactly 21 days for four years. Recomputing every entry in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue shows the collapse happened in two steps, and the first one came three months early.
Europe switched on a new Galileo satellite last week and announced it in a status table
GSAT0234 entered active service on 23 July. The only public notice is a row in the EU’s constellation feed marked “usable as from” that date.
NASA’s Madrid deep-space antennas are tracking spacecraft again after a wildfire crossed the site
NASA’s Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex is back on the air after a wildfire forced its evacuation, with four of its six dishes tracking spacecraft on Monday.
New York becomes the first state to hit pause on big new data centers
Governor Kathy Hochul ordered a pause of up to a year on state permits for large data centers — those drawing 50 megawatts or more — making New York the first US state to brake the AI-driven buildout over energy and cost concerns.
Meta plans cloud business to sell excess AI compute, taking on AWS, Azure and Google
Meta is building a cloud service to sell spare AI computing power and access to models like Muse Spark, Bloomberg reported. Shares jumped over 10%; CoreWeave and Nebius sank.