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A Commercial Space Race Prompts a Thorny Question: Who Owns the Sky?

The surge in satellites brings pollution and risks of repeating destructive colonial practices, experts warn.

By Bob Berwyn

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a payload of 24 Starlink satellites soars over Santee, Calif., after launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base on July 18, 2025. Credit: Kevin Carter/Getty Images
People gather for the first Earth Day event in Philadelphia on April 22, 1970. Credit: Jack Rosen/Getty Images

The History of Earth Day—and Why It Still Matters

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

A SpaceX rocket lifts off from Starbase, Texas, for a test flight on Aug. 26, 2025. Credit: Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP via Getty Images

What Goes Up Must Come Down

By Bob Berwyn

A view of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 (OCO-3) payload on its way to the International Space Station in 2019. Credit: Christina Koch/NASA

Will NASA Kill a Pair of Critical Climate Satellites?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

The cockpit view of the eXternal Vision System inside NASA’s Quesst aircraft, the X-59. Credit: Garry Tice/Lockheed Martin

Low Boom, High Pollution? NASA Readies for Supersonic Test Flight

By Marianne Lavelle, Kiley Bense

People watch as the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off from launch pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 2019 in Titusville, Florida. The rocket is carrying a communications satellite built by Lockheed Martin into orbit. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Space Tourism Poses a Significant ‘Risk to the Climate’

By Phil McKenna

SpaceX's first orbital Starship SN20 is stacked atop its massive Super Heavy Booster 4 at the company's Starbase facility near Boca Chica Village in South Texas on Feb. 10, 2022. Credit: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

As SpaceX Grows, So Do Complaints From Environmentalists, Indigenous Groups and Brownsville Residents

By Aman Azhar

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