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 ...

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

Chinese spacecraft begin rendezvous and proximity operations in geostationary orbit China’s Shijian-21 and Shijian-25 are ...

Twenty-eight new SpaceX Starlink satellites are now in low Earth orbit, having launched from Florida early Wednesday morning ...

The U.S. isn’t completely innocent either. In June 2017, classified U.S. military satellite USA 276 snuck up on the International Space Station at a close distance of about 4 miles (6.4 kilometers).

SpaceX on Wednesday afternoon launched another batch of 27 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Itg was the 500th launh of a Falcon rocket.

However, there are approximately 7,000 Starlink satellites in orbit, with SpaceX aspiring to operate a 42,000-satellite constellation. It's far from sustainable to have that many man-made objects ...

It also allows satellites to spread out faster in orbit. Others involved in the broadband megaconstellation rush have copied SpaceX's architecture. China's Qianfan, or Thousand Sails, ...

Bezos and Amazon are a long way from catching up to Musk and Starlink, but the first-generation Kuiper satellite system is due to include 3,232 advanced low-Earth orbit satellites.

Two BeiDou-3 satellites, once plagued by puzzling orbit errors, are now operating with newfound precision thanks to a breakthrough modeling strategy. Researchers discovered that standard models ...

Earth’s satellite problem is only getting worse as time goes on and more satellites are sent into orbit. One of the chief issues with the number of satellites in orbit is how much they can ...