The Sun's activity is what gives us beautiful auroras — but it also has dramatic negative effects on satellites that go around Earth in a low orbit. In early November, three tiny Australian ...
Rocket Lab launched five "Internet of Things" (IoT) satellites to orbit on Sunday night (Nov. 24), continuing to build out a constellation for the French company Kinéis. An Electron launcher ...
Falcon-9 put the GSAT-N2 to a geosynchronous transfer orbit. This is India’s first collaboration with Elon Musk’s SpaceX. It is a Ka-band high-throughput communication satellite of ...
In a rare show of openness about the X-37B, Boeing Space released a video detailing how the space plane's aerobraking maneuvers help change its orbit. 'The U.S. military's highly secretive X-37B ...
Like its big tech rivals, Amazon.com AMZN3.18%increase; green up pointing triangle is spending a king’s ransom on artificial intelligence. Unlike them, it also has plenty of customers dropping ...
A Russian rocket carrying a payload of satellites into orbit – including two from Iran – blasted off successfully, Russia’s Roscosmos space agency said, in a move seen as reflecting the ...
Earlier this year, astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were sent into orbit on a Boeing Starliner. What initially looked like a feel-good storyline for the company has turned into something ...
The Soyuz rocket took off from the Vostochny launchpad in far eastern Russia, deploying Russian satellites into orbit and several dozen smaller satellites, including two from Iran. The Kowsar and ...
It sounds like something out of a science-fiction movie. For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is more than just a ...
The cancellation of Australia’s JP9102 satellite program is yet another sign of the disruptive impact that low Earth orbit space internet services, led by the rapid growth of SpaceX’s Starlink ...
The company released a video detailing the experimental maneuvers currently being carried out by the vehicle in space to alter its orbit. Boeing recently put up a brief, two-minute video on X ...
An illustration of two Starship spacecraft docked to one another in orbit. SpaceX By early next year, SpaceX may be ready to have two of its Starships rendezvous in orbit for an ambitious ...