R2C2 will first be used to control experimental satellites, such as those flown under the Space Test Program, as well as ...

As space junk increases, more operators are choosing to launch without any insurance at all. To compensate, companies are ...

Satellites that retire are deorbited into a graveyard orbit within 25 years of their missions ending. This is the case with ...

While the Gemini North Telescope may be at a high enough elevation to avoid light pollution, it has another issue that might ...

A NASA satellite that’s been orbiting as space junk since 1967, Relay 2, emitted an unexpected, powerful radio burst that ...

WASHINGTON — SpaceX has secured an $81.6 million contract to launch a U.S. military weather-monitoring satellite in 2027. The ...

A 2015 satellite photo captured a series of stunning "von Kármán vortices" swirling off Madeira and the Canary Islands. The ...

First thought to have originated from a distant cosmic object, the short and intense signal was actually coming from much ...

Lux Aeterna, a Denver-based startup, is working on a reusable satellite that has attracted $4 million in pre-seeding funding ...

Thales Alenia Space says that the French government has appointed the Franco-Italian joint venture to lead development of a ...

As of November 2024, the United States accounted for 8,530 satellites in orbit, the highest number of any nation or ...