Satellites serve many purposes while they orbit above the Earth, but as they do so, how fast do they actually move? The ...

SpaceX launched the Transporter-13 rideshare mission on Friday, March 14, at 11:43 PM PDT (06:43 UTC on March 15) from SLC-4E ...

As Earth's orbit becomes populated with more crafts and devices, researchers are looking for ways to detect and track ...

The Spacecraft Speedometer is currently deployed on the Space Test Program-Houston 5 platform on the International Space ...

It's official - space is a war-fighting domain. Who says so? The British, the Americans, Nato and, among many other nations, ...

Anirudh Sharma, Tanveer Ahmed and Rahul Rawat are only 26. But their space-tech start-up, Digantara, recently launched the ...

Their first tracker is now in orbit. They plan to use a series of these to generate live maps of satellites big and small, fragments from old vessels, and debris as small as 5 cm.

Operators follow a 25-year rule: at this point, a satellite’s mission is deemed to have ended and it is lowered into the atmosphere where gravity and friction kicks in. While this helps clear space, ...

Massive wildfires devastated the Los Angeles region in January, forcing over 100,000 people to evacuate and razing thousands ...

"There are going to be hundreds of satellites and, in fact, considerably more over time as the program ramps up—if it does so as planned," said Jon Ludwigson.

China conducts aerial combat training with satellites, raising U.S. space tensions China advances satellite combat training ...

FireSat aims to have an LEO constellation comprising 50 satellites designed to help firefighters mitigate wildfires before ...