A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch from California on a TRACERS satellite mission for NASA. What time is liftoff, and will ...

Compared with the highly sophisticated satellites in orbit today, including the Hubble Space Telescope and the International Space Station, Sputnik 1 is not much to look at. But this satellite ...

SpaceX's Falcon 9 will help launch and deploy a batch of Amazon's Kuiper satellites into orbit that could one day challenge ...

SpaceX launched the third batch of satellites for Amazon's Project Kuiper broadband megaconstellation early on Wednesday ...

China’s Shijian-21 and Shijian-25 satellites, known as SJ-21 and SJ-25 for short, likely docked together in geosynchronous ...

From the moment of the first space launch up until now, mankind has been sending various devices and people into space using ...

The Biomass satellite, nicknamed Space Brolly because of its massive 12-meter diameter antenna, sparked optimism because ...

A new mission set to blast off for low-Earth orbit will study magnetic storms around the Earth and learn more about how they ...

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

The idea is not without precedent. In 2011, Iridium Communications worked with scientists to piggyback research instruments into space. Around 30 Iridium satellites — which typically beam voice ...

Earth’s orbits are filling with satellites at an astounding pace. Already there are more than 9,000 satellites orbiting the planet, and more than 5,000 of them belong to Starlink, the ...

On a special episode (first released on April 3, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: What happens when today’s treasure – satellites that give us access to broadband internet and accurate weather ...