Rocket Lab has announced the fourth launch of satellites for the Kinéis Constellation in New Zealand. Takeaway Points Rocket ...

How do low-Earth orbit satellites pose a problem for ground-based astronomy? The main thing is there are so many of them that are currently being launched and planned to be launched and they ...

Every other chorus wave astronomers have heard started closer to home, within about 31,690 miles (51,000 kilometers) of Earth. That's higher than the orbit where you'll find geostationary satellites, ...

SpaceX didn’t respond to a request for comment, but the company might be retiring large batches of older Starlink satellites, ...

Starlink is a satellite network developed by SpaceX to provide low-cost internet to remote locations. As of January 2024, there were close to 7,000 Starlink satellites in orbit. SpaceX plans to ...

These satellites, as well as anything else leaving Earth, needs to pass through ... doubled the number of satellites in orbit, and that's just the start. Many scientists are concerned that we ...

"In 2024, we saw a 17% year-over-year spike in the average number of close approaches in low Earth orbit per satellite." ...

Vodafone has arranged what it calls the first smartphone-based satellite video connection in the UK. An engineer stood on ...