NASA is planning to decommission premier satellite missions that gather information on planet-warming pollution and other climate vital signs beginning as soon as October, sources inside and outside ...

Germany and the United Kingdom have warned of the growing threat posed by Russian and Chinese space satellites, which have been regularly spotted spying on satellites used by Western powers. The ...

A Starlink satellite nearly collided with a Chinese satellite at 350 miles altitude, passing within just 650 feet of each other in low Earth orbit. PCWorld reports the Chinese satellite was launched ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Starlink satellites in low-Earth orbit are de-orbiting and falling to Earth at the rate of one to two per day. If Starlink continues scaling up ...

As Congress debates NASA’s 2026 budget, two small but mighty satellites hang in limbo: the Orbiting Carbon Observatories, specifically OCO-2 and OCO-3. Tasked with tracking carbon dioxide and plant ...

The rapidly growing traffic of satellites in low Earth orbit is increasingly becoming vulnerable to space weather events and could tumble like a “house of cards” after a major solar storm, a new study ...

NASA’s Pandora satellite lifts off on SpaceX’s Twilight mission to study exoplanets and analyze their atmospheres with a ...

A Chinese application to the International Telecommunications Union suggests plans for the largest satellite mega ...

For decades, the military has relied on large, multi-ton satellites for global communications from geostationary orbit (GEO), a prime location 35,000 kilometers above Earth that provides unique ...

SCHRIEVER AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. – An image of Hurricanes Irma and Jose, downloaded by Reserve Citizen Airmen at the 6th Space Operations Squadron from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force is moving ahead with plans to tap commercial geostationary small-satellite constellations to bolster military communications, issuing a revised request for ...