Operators follow a 25-year rule: at this point, a satellite’s mission is deemed to have ended and it is lowered into the atmosphere where gravity and friction kicks in. While this helps clear space, ...

Satellites connect people around the world but they also interfere with astronomers’ views of the cosmos. There are ways to ...

NASA’s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have returned to Earth from a weeklong mission at the International Space Station that ...

Greenhouse gas emissions aren’t just warming our planet, they’re reshaping space, too ... Core Observatory that went into orbit in 2014. Weather satellites are critical for weather forecasting.

Besides the telescope, SpaceX’s Falcon rocket provided a lift from Vandenberg for a quartet of NASA satellites called Punch.

Musk has been working to retrieve the astronauts after they were left behind on the ISS due to malfunctions with their ...

Blasting off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9, NASA’s EZIE mission is on a groundbreaking journey to unravel the mysteries of auroral ...

Under the nighttime California sky, NASA’s EZIE (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer) mission launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon ...

The first satellite ... flying its full complement, it’ll provide firefighters with near real-time updates on a fire’s whereabouts and behavior. The constellation is a joint effort between ...

And it's not just the launches. SpaceX is operating a constellation of more than 7,000 satellites, flying humans into space regularly, and developing an unprecedented rocket like Starship.

NASA’s upcoming EZIE mission will use three small satellites to study electrojets — powerful electrical currents in the upper atmosphere linked to auroras. These mysterious currents influence ...

More than that, and the risk of satellites crashing into debris or each other poses a threat to the space industry. Grist thanks its sponsors. Become one. To support our nonprofit environmental ...