A NASA satellite has touched back down on Earth after 14 years in orbit. Van Allen Probe A re-entered on Wednesday, the U.S.
We’ve had things that have reentered have a 1 in 1,000 chance, and nothing happened; if we have a few that are 1 in 4,000 or ...
A collision would occur in just 2.8 days if all satellites lost their ability to dodge each other, highlighting how crowded Earth’s orbit is becoming. In the past seven years, the number of satellites ...
A 1,300-pound NASA satellite is expected to crash through Earth's atmosphere March 10, 2026, with some of the spacecraft ...
China launches new highly retrograde Yaogan satellite, KZ-11 rideshare deploys 8 satellites China conducted a pair of launches Sunday, sending a second Yaogan-50 satellite into a highly retrograde ...
Astrolight CEO Laurynas Mačiulis explains how laser satellite communication could ease spectrum congestion, increase data capacity, and raise new engineering and policy questions for space ...
On Wednesday, Federal Communications Commission chairman Brendan Carr criticized Amazon.com, Inc. for opposing SpaceX's ...
Reflections cast by a growing number of satellites orbiting the Earth could ruin more than 95% of images taken by some space telescopes in the next decade, according to a NASA-led study. The reflected ...
A Swiss company has developed a spacecraft designed to remove space debris as Earth’s orbit becomes increasingly crowded. The vehicle functions like a tow truck, using a robotic claw to capture dead ...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasts off carrying Starlink satellites into orbit.Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images SpaceX is adjusting the orbits of thousands of Starlink satellites ...