Captured by NASA satellite on January 10, 2026, the bloom appeared as swirls of green and blue, an unmistakable sign of a ...
Texas startup AST SpaceMobile launched BlueBird 6, the first of its next-generation satellites, this week—and boy was it a big one. BlueBird 6 is roughly three times larger than its predecessors and ...
Jan 1 (Reuters) - Starlink will begin a reconfiguration of its satellite constellation by lowering all of its satellites orbiting at around 550 km (342 miles) to 480 km over the course of 2026, ...
Japanese company Synspective has a goal of operating as many as 30 SAR satellites by the end of the decade. Credit: Synspective WASHINGTON — Japanese radar-imaging company Synspective has been ...
The year 2025 ended with more than 14,000 active satellites from all nations zooming around the Earth. One-third of them will soon move to lower altitudes. The maneuvers will be undertaken by SpaceX, ...
AST SpaceMobile's first Block 2 BlueBird direct-to-device satellite was taken to LEO by an LVM3, India's largest rocket. Credit: ISRO TAMPA, Fla. — An Indian LVM3 rocket launched AST SpaceMobile’s ...
Liftoff of the COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation mission occurred on schedule at 9:09 p.m. ET tonight (Jan. 2). When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...
At nearly 2,400 square feet, BlueBird 6 is over three times the size and 10x the capacity of AST SpaceMobile’s six satellites currently in orbit. The satellite is designed to enable peak data rates of ...
At about 800 kilometers (500 miles) east of New Zealand’s South Island, the sparsely populated Chatham Islands are rugged, ...
AST SpaceMobile Launches Its Most Powerful Direct-to-Cell Satellite Yet The first of its next-generation BlueBird satellites is now in orbit. But the Starlink rival, backed by AT&T, Verizon, and ...
The number of Starlink satellites falling back to Earth and burning up in the atmosphere has declined in recent months, down from around 500 to 200. The decrease, mentioned in SpaceX’s latest ...
SpaceX may have launched 10,000 Starlink satellites into orbit, but now it's got big competition. As in literally, physically big. Texas-based AST SpaceMobile has just launched the largest satellite ...