The Sun's activity is what gives us beautiful auroras — but it also has dramatic negative effects on satellites that go ...

The 5-year-old U.S. Space Force is moving quickly to confront what is becoming its priority challenge: the threat of ...

The Nation’s first reusable and returnable satellite, Shijian-19,was successfully retrieved and returned to Earth after ...

For the second time in a week, the International Space Station has had to adjust its orbit in order to steer clear of a piece ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — The weather was looking good as SpaceX launched more than 20 Starlink satellites on Tuesday night.

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The five IoT nanosatellites were deployed into a 400-mile-high (643 kilometers) orbit about 66 minutes after liftoff as ...

While SpaceX has revolutionized space launches, vastly decreasing their cost and increasing their reliability, the company ...

The BlueWalker 3 satellite was fully deployed, making it the "largest-ever commercial communications array in low Earth orbit ...

China has announced a strategic roadmap for advancing its Beidou positioning and navigation system by 2035, in a move which could have global implications. The country plans to complete ...

There's nothing innate about the Earth or its atmosphere that marks the boundaries of low Earth orbit. This is a distinction ...