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

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

Who's up for a morning rocket launch? Weather permitting, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket should be visible from the Space Coast this Tuesday.

SpaceX is preparing to launch the KF-02 mission on Saturday morning, sending Amazon's Kuiper satellites into space from ...

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

Albedo Space's Clarity-1 satellite, the first commercial satellite in very low earth orbit, wins second contract from the ...

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

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 ...

Rocket Lab launched a synthetic aperture radar satellite dubbed QPS-SAR-12 for the Japanese company IQS on Tuesday morning, ...

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

Availability is a critical factor for customers in rural areas. While Starlink’s availability is expanding, it’s not yet ...

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 ...