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

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 74 satellites from California early Saturday morning (March 15), then came back to Earth ...

Objects that orbit the planet are dragged down by the ... “And so you can get a chain reaction where all the satellites are hitting each other, breaking up, and creating more and more debris.” ...

A recent study reveals that greenhouse gas emissions risk significantly reducing the capacity for satellites in low Earth orbit by the end of the century. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of ...

Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai celebrated the launch of the company's first ‘FireSat’ satellite into Earth's orbit and ...

The suddenly all-too-real prospect of large-scale ... aim to deploy between 200 and 400 laser-fitted small satellites into an orbit roughly 370 miles above Earth’s surface before the end of ...

With around 8,000 satellites currently in low-Earth orbit, Andrew Howarth ... to the point where space can be inaccessible because of all the pieces floating around up there, moving around ...

“The satellite constellation is designed to measure cosmic radiation in orbit,” Ariel explained ... me – to see young men and women from all sectors of Israeli society working together ...