For decades, the United States treated satellite navigation as a quiet monopoly, with GPS embedded in everything from ...

Q: I was on a 16-night cruise when my niece called to say my brother was dying. I booked a flight home through Orbitz but accidentally chose the wrong airport. By the time I reached the correct ...

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An image of Starlink-35956, a satellite that suffered an in-orbit anomaly Dec. 17, confirming the spacecraft was largely intact despite generating hundreds of pieces of debris. Credit: Vantor ...

Jan 1 (Reuters) - Starlink will begin a reconfiguration of its satellite constellation by lowering all of its satellites orbiting at around 550 km (342 miles) to 480 km over the course of 2026, ...

Q. I was on a 16-night cruise when my niece called to say that my brother was dying. I booked a flight home through Orbitz but accidentally chose the wrong airport. By the time I reached the correct ...

SpaceX has announced it will reconfigure its Starlink internet satellite constellation by lowering the orbit of more than 4,400 satellites throughout 2026, shortly after Beijing said the project posed ...

This comes after Starlink said in December that one of its satellites experienced an anomaly in space, creating a "small" amount of debris and cutting off communications with the spacecraft. Starlink ...

For nearly six hours, daily life in Nanjing, one of eastern China’s biggest cities, was thrown into confusion after satellite navigation services suddenly stopped working. The outage affected a city ...

What just happened? There have been plenty of reports in recent times about near-misses of low Earth orbit satellites – most of them belonging to Starlink. In 2026, Elon Musk's company hopes to reduce ...

Four former defence company bosses have been sacked by China’s top political advisory body amid an ongoing anti-corruption campaign in the military and related sectors. They are among eight members ...

At the start of the year, Earth will quietly reach a milestone in its orbit around the sun. Known as perihelion, this is the moment when our planet is closer to the sun than at any other point in the ...