There's a new race in space, but it's not where you might think. It's happening close to home – in the nearest bit of space, ...

Starlink, a satellite network developed by SpaceX, aims to provide low-cost internet access to remote locations. The surge in crashing satellites is primarily due to the mass retirement of the ...

Rocket Lab launched a high-resolution Earth-imaging satellite toward low Earth orbit this evening (Feb. 18). An Electron ...

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 ...

Dark matter is thought to outnumber regular matter by a factor of five to one – so why can’t we find the stuff? A new study ...

As a Starlink satellite orbits, it will unfold its solar panels and lay flat in a low drag position to resist gravity’s pull back to Earth. When ready, it will point its panels directly “up ...

As the number of satellites in Earth orbit increases, so too does the risk from space debris — and some experts warn certain orbits could already be getting dangerously crowded. The mass of ...

Due to the rotation of the earth the satellite is able to view every spot on earth twice each day. Data from multiple orbits are mosaicked together to provide wide scale global and full earth ...

Polar orbits take the satellites over the Earth’s poles. The satellites travel very close to the Earth (as low as 200 km above sea level), so they must travel at very high speeds (nearly 8,000 m/s).

The first episode of ITU’s Space Connect examined the fundamentals of LEO satellite constellations, revealing key trends and ...

Founded a little less than three years ago, K2 seeks to disrupt the production of large satellites by focusing on vertical integration and taking advantage of large launch vehicles, such as SpaceX's ...