SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida's Space Coast on Monday (March 31). A Falcon 9 ...

The U.S. Space Force is funding the development of a new "Orbital Carrier" spacecraft that can deploy multiple satellites ...

A case in point: a European Space Agency satellite, known as ERS-2, launched in 1995 and inactive since 2011, tumbled through ...

Magdrive is working on three versions of its space thrusters, and because they run on solid metal, they might one day even be powered by space junk collected directly in orbit, turning it from threat ...

The worlds first artificial satellite, the Soviet Unions Sputnik 1, was launched in October 1957. Just three months later, it ...

Starlink satellites orbit approximately 342 miles (550 kilometers ... have been launched in all of history with 6,800 currently active according to the European Space Agency (ESA).

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The East Coast of the United States is getting a new watchful eye over its skies as the National Ocean and ...

When the AMSAT-OSCAR 7 (AO-7) amateur radio satellite was launched in 1974, its expected lifespan was about five years. The plucky little satellite made it to 1981 when a battery failure caused it ...

Satellite operators need better space weather models to maximize the life of their satellites and to avoid collisions in low ...

There was experiments to test the performance of the different positioning frameworks with Starlink satellites before year ...

While low Earth orbit satellites dominate now, there is still room for geostationary and medium Earth orbit constellations to ...