Your satellite dish: Your dish receives and transmits data.; Orbiting satellites: Satellites in outer space receive information from your satellite dish and route requests back to Earth, to data ...

"We are just beginning to appreciate how bad the disruption can be for land-based and space-based telescopes, and as more and more satellite overflights occur, the problems will only intensify." ...

ESA's TRISAT-R satellite has a camera that's only about the size of a coin's edge, yet it managed to capture a view of our entire world. Skip to main content Open menu Close menu ...

Satellite images show the devastating toll the LA fires have taken on the city as captured from space. Don Pettit/X. Smoke from the Palisades Fire continued to stream toward the Pacific Ocean ...

Mission: SpaceX will launch a Lockheed Martin-built GPS III satellite for the Space Force's Space Systems Command atop a Falcon 9 rocket. Launch window: 1:23 p.m. to 2:08 p.m. ET Friday, May 30 ...

Mr. Hennigan writes about national security for Opinion. U.S. military personnel at Space Command, in Colorado Springs, have kept a close eye on Cosmos 2553 ever since it reached orbit. Bathed in ...

These are just a few of the challenges that humans face in outer space. Emily and Regina talk to a NASA astronaut (and astronaut scientist) about the impact of spaceflight on the human body.

The solar sail is carefully packed inside of a satellite that is attached to a rocket. Once launched into outer space, the small, origami-shaped satellite vessel unfurls a large, lightweight, aluminum ...

China has constructed a space station; was the first to land a probe on the dark side of the moon; and is in a race with the NASA-led Artemis program to send a manned mission to Earth's natural ...

Space debris is a growing problem, with a NASA report estimating there are 170 million pieces of junk out there Last Updated: Oct. 7, 2023 at 11:45 a.m. ET First Published: Oct. 3, 2023 at 2:11 p ...

The satellite will also send an alert to a person when it is above their location on Earth, making it possible to photobomb themselves in their own selfie from space. Skip to content ≡ ...

A new weather satellite will monitor both Earth and space-based weather. The GOES-U mission will gauge storm severity on Earth and track solar storms.