What happens when an interstellar comet is also a dress rehearsal for maintaining the usability of Earth’s orbits? Comet ...

SpaceX has announced it will reconfigure its Starlink internet satellite constellation by lowering the orbit of more than 4,400 satellites throughout 2026, shortly after Beijing said the project posed ...

Michael Nicholls, vice president of Starlink engineering, posted the news on social platform X, announcing the company’s plan to change the orbit of the satellites in order to reduce the chances of ...

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TEHRAN, Iran — Russia on Sunday sent three Iranian communications satellites into orbit, the second such launch since July, Iranian state television reported. The report said that a Russian rocket ...

SpaceX has lost contact with one of its broadband satellites, which is now falling toward Earth due to an unspecified and seemingly mysterious anomaly. The company revealed that a Starlink satellite ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. The American patrol satellite had the targets in its sights: two recently ...

A collision would occur in just 2.8 days if all satellites lost their ability to dodge each other, highlighting how crowded Earth’s orbit is becoming. In the past seven years, the number of satellites ...

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Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti receives funding from NASA and Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA). He teaches space systems engineering and mission design and management at the University ...

As a true milestone on the path to autonomous space systems, a research team at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) has successfully tested an AI-based attitude controller for satellites ...

Orbit Fab, a space company providing satellite refueling service, has appointed Kevin Smith as its new chief technology officer. “We’re fueling the future of space mobility. Congratulations to Kevin ...