Satellites serve many purposes while they orbit above the Earth, but as they do so, how fast do they actually move? The ...

The Falcon 9 rocket flying the mission, Starlink 11-7, carried a total of 27 satellites to orbit from Vandenberg Space Force ...

Re-entries of SpaceX Starlink satellites are causing environmental concerns by releasing aluminium oxide, which could harm ...

Satellites connect people around the world but they also interfere with astronomers’ views of the cosmos. There are ways to ...

A case in point: a European Space Agency satellite, known as ERS-2, launched in 1995 and inactive since 2011, tumbled through ...

China is practicing “dogfighting” satellites as part of its expanding capabilities in space, according to the United States ...

Greenhouse gas emissions could reduce drag in the upper atmosphere, leaving more space debris in orbit and making satellites ...

MTN South Africa and Lynk Global, a satellite company, have said they have completed the first successful test of a satellite ...

All the excess carbon dioxide generated by people burning fossil fuels is shrinking the upper atmosphere, exacerbating the ...

While low Earth orbit satellites dominate now, there is still room for geostationary and medium Earth orbit constellations to ...

The Space Force is clearly a military organization, separate from NASA's exploratory governmental organization—unlike Star ...

They enable internet access in areas of the Earth's surface without landline connections by copper or fibre optic cable, or ...