On January 30 2026, SpaceX filed an application with the US Federal Communications Commission for a megaconstellation of up to one million satellites to power data centres in space. The proposal ...

From Super Bowl ads to new constellation announcements, satellites are suddenly everywhere. What’s driving this surge in activity, and what should we make of it?

Industry first test of compact and energy-efficient satellite laser terminals in orbit aid to pave way for more secure, high-bandwidth and affordable space-to-Earth communication for small satellite ...

BlueBird 6 features the biggest commercial communications array antenna ever deployed in orbit around Earth, spanning some ...

With more and more internet satellites launching every year, scientists are growing increasingly concerned about the rising risk of collisions. The CRASH Clock is a new predictor of how much time ...

SpaceX wants to shoot up to one million satellites into space for AI. That’s a staggering number, considering there are fewer than 20,000 satellites in Earth’s orbit right now. The Elon Musk-helmed ...

An image of the Chinese satellite ZY-3 taken by HEO using the NewSat-34 spacecraft, which HEO has acquired from Satellogic. Credit: HEO ORLANDO, Fla.— HEO, the Australian company that performs ...

Researchers used a pair of powerful supercomputers to simulate the potential trajectories of 1 million satellites in a ...

Amazon is working to meet a separate deadline imposed by the FCC to deploy 1,600 of its first generation satellites before July 2026. Late last month, the company asked the agency to extend the cutoff ...

Ground-based observations suggest the former geostationary inspector satellite suffered a fragmentation event months after retirement, raising new concerns about debris in high Earth orbit. When you ...

Under the new GHOST-R effort, the Defense Innovation Unit hopes to have a high-resolution bird operating on orbit within 24 months.

We are only a month into 2026, yet it’s already clear what one of the major space stories of the year is going to be: mega-constellations, and the ongoing attempts to launch thousands of satellites ...