Increasingly crowded orbits full of satellites and debris pose potential hazards for services on Earth, and need regulation.

Space junk is a major threat with millions of debris pieces now in orbit. Risks range from minor collisions reducing the ...

Mining ocean resources needed for electric cars and other devices is currently a hot issue of dispute. Final resolution of ...

The company has been working with an observatory and the US National Science Foundation to study the effects of lowering its satellites to 350km (217 miles) versus 550km.

For now, SpaceX only has permission to operate 400 Starlink satellites at the 350km orbits in coordination with NASA through a study. But the number could be expanded to 7,500 second-generation ...

The NVS-01 satellite, launched in May 2023, was the first in the second-generation navigation satellite series, featuring new ...

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

Founded a little less than three years ago, K2 seeks to disrupt the production of large satellites by focusing on vertical ...

NISAR’s exceptional capabilities come from its use of synthetic aperture radar (SAR), a sophisticated technology pioneered by NASA for space applications. SAR works by combining multiple radar ...

The survey, shown as a mosaic, was assembled from two Hubble programs that required over 1,000 Hubble orbits, spanning more ...

Here’s how it works. Starlink is the name of a satellite network developed by the private spaceflight company SpaceX to provide low-cost internet to remote locations. A Starlink satellite has a ...

when the mercury fluctuates from -100 to 100 degrees Celsius every 45 minutes as it orbits from darkness to sunlight. The satellite's ability to shield the equipment's technological capabilities ...