Shoe box-sized CubeSats are becoming increasingly important in space exploration and collecting scientific data.

The beta phase will run until July. Afterward, you can decide if you want to pay for the service.

A £127 million contract will see Airbus design and construct two synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites in the UK ready ...

Rocket Lab at first planned to launch the satellites on Feb. 3 but stood down to ensure the mission had no risk of interfering with other spacecraft in orbit — that "it's safe to merge onto the ...

It's their considerable sideways momentum, perfectly stabilised against the Earth's gravitational pull downwards, that keeps satellites in orbit. A new class of satellites is aiming to push the ...

Elon Musk-led SpaceX developed the Starlink satellite network to provide “low-cost internet access” to remote locations. However, the rate of satellites in orbit is increasing as the constellation ...

Behind the mere contractual agreement with a Canadian company could be a constellation already registered in Germany in 2020.

A surge in reentries of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites has sparked concerns over their environmental impact, as 120 satellites ...

The Reusable Revolution Since the first satellites were put into orbit with Sputnik in 1957, to the 1969 Moon landing, the 1971 first space station, and the 2001 first space tourist, all access to ...

In a notice Wednesday, the agency said it is conducting a study that looks at how its architecture could be expanded as part ...

SpaceX had a very successful test launch of their new Falcon Heavy rocket. This one has three boosters: two Falcon 9 rockets strapped to a center booster that’s entirely ...

An anthropologist recounts how a small island nation built and deployed its first satellite—and what their effort says about ...