Starlink reports satellite anomaly, says no risk to space station or Artemis II

Investing.com -- A Starlink satellite experienced an anomaly on Sunday, resulting in loss of communications with the spacecraft at approximately 560 kilometers above Earth, the company said on X Monday.

Starlink satellite 34343 lost contact following the on-orbit event. The company's latest analysis indicates the incident poses no new risk to the International Space Station, its crew, or to NASA's upcoming Artemis II mission, scheduled to launch Wednesday.

The anomaly also posed no new risk to Monday morning's Transporter-16 mission, which was designed to avoid the Starlink constellation with payload deployments well above or below it, according to the post.

Starlink said it will continue to monitor the satellite and any trackable debris in coordination with NASA and the U.S. Space Force.

The SpaceX and Starlink teams are working to determine the root cause of the anomaly and will implement any necessary corrective actions, the company said.

Artemis II is a planned lunar flyby under NASA's Artemis program currently set to launch in two days, on April 1st. The ten-day mission will carry NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, on a free-return trajectory around the Moon and back to Earth.

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