This was its fifth flight following the launches of four other batches of Starlink satellites. Tracking potential threatsIn an update Thursday night, SpaceX announced a new system it set up for what’s known as Space Situational Awareness or SSA. The new software is called “Stargaze” and SpaceX said it will be available to all satellite operators “free of charge, via its space-traffic management platform” in the coming weeks. By providing this… pic.twitter.com/N7St7dvpz2 — Starlink (@Starlink) January 30, 2026Built into SpaceX’s more than 9,500 satellites on orbit are the company’s own star trackers. “In late 2025, a Starlink satellite encountered a conjunction with a third-party satellite that was performing maneuvers, but whose operator was not sharing ephemeris (trajectory predictions),” the company said.