"Our behavior with greenhouse gases here on Earth over the past 100 years is having an effect on how we operate satellites ...

Greenhouse gases are doing more than warming our planet — they're reshaping space itself. As emissions cool and shrink the ...

In the new study, researchers aimed to evaluate the “satellite carrying capacity” of certain altitudes of interest, or “shells", in low Earth orbit by creating simulations of carbon emissions ...

Climate change isn’t just affecting Earth, it’s reshaping space as well. A new MIT study reveals that rising greenhouse gas ...

The US Space Force has accused China of "dogfighting in space," a term that usually refers to fighter jets caught up in an ...

As Earth's orbit is becoming more littered with detritus ... but that takes months or years depending on the altitude." CASSIOPE, or the Cascade Smallsat and Ionospheric Polar Explorer, was ...

LEO networks like Starlink are challenging GEO operators, driving innovation as competition, cost pressures, and new ...

Others traveling vertically north-south are more likely from Earth observation ... enough velocity for orbit), natural atmospheric drag pulls them down to lower altitudes, where air molecules ...

The emphasis was on low-Earth orbit (LEO; an altitude of ≤1,200 miles or 2,000 kilometers), where most satellites reside. With the United States increasingly dependent on satellites for communications ...

Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams, who had been in space for the past nine months, successfully returned to Earth early ...