There are about 15,000 satellites orbiting the Earth. Most of them, like the International Space Station and the Hubble ...

The BlueBird 6 from Texas-based AST SpaceMobile comes in at a full 2,400 square feet, or about the size of a three-bedroom ...

Very low Earth orbit satellites are moving from engineering curiosity to strategic priority, promising sharper images, faster ...

An image taken from the live broadcast of SpaceX's Thursday launch shows snow building up on the outside of the second-stage of the two-stage rocket. Screen capture courtesy of SpaceX July 12 (UPI) ...

PARIS — France plans to launch a maneuverable satellite into low Earth orbit in the next two years that can target other satellites, something French Space Command said is necessary to show the ...

The story of human progress has always been about the pioneers who dared to cross the river, explore the cave, or sail beyond the horizon. When those who go first return, what was dangerous and ...

Turkish defense firm Aselsan announced on Monday that it launched the LUNA-1 low orbit IoT (internet of things) satellite with a SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket. "ASELSAN’s LUNA-1 low-Earth-orbit IoT satellite ...

Reservations for the Blue Dot, a restaurant named for its view 250 miles above Earth, open at the end of the decade. More than half a century after man landed on the moon, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is ...

Low Earth orbit will soon be home to tens of thousands of satellites—and that could be a huge problem. Low Earth orbit—the region from around 100 to 1,200 miles above the ground—is virtually lawless.

Early risers on California’s Central Coast and parts south were treated to a rocket launch Thursday morning, followed by a sonic boom. SpaceX launched a weather satellite into low Earth orbit from the ...