Who watches the watchmen and who spies on the spy satellites? It turns out it's an optical package called Morning Sparrow ...

An object is said to be in low Earth orbit if it completes a revolution every 128 minutes or less. A 128-minute orbit, according to Kepler's third law, works out to a semi-major axis of 8,413 km ...

Micrometeoroids travel so fast that even a flake of paint can punch dime-sized craters in solar panels. NASA modeling shows a ...

On Monday, in one of his first official tasks, NASA Acting Administrator Sean Duffy signed a new "directive" on commercial ...

SpaceX is set to launch the KF-02 mission Friday morning from Cape Canaveral, carrying Amazon’s Kuiper internet satellites ...

The first crew to splash down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.

A Falcon 9 launch carrying 24 Starlink satellites destined for low-Earth orbit has a launch window scheduled for ...

In a paper published in Acta Astronautica, the researchers demonstrated how origami may be the solution to low Earth orbit’s ...

At these distances, the satellites remain within Earth’s protective magnetic shield and can reliably measure the planet’s ...

It’s sort of Google Earth but with the details focused on low-earth orbit. You can fly around the planet and watch the satellites whiz by or even pick out the hundreds of spent upper-stage ...

An object is said to be in low Earth orbit if it completes a revolution every 128 minutes or less. A 128-minute orbit, according to Kepler's third law, works out to a semi-major axis of 8,413 km ...