There are about 15,000 satellites orbiting the Earth. Most of them, like the International Space Station and the Hubble ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The number of spacecraft orbiting Earth is rising fast thanks to the emergence of private ...

One of the most crucial elements of a forecast is sky conditions. Whether it's sunny, partly cloudy, or storming. Typically, we use radar to detect rain, but when it is not raining, how do we observe ...

The satellite population in low Earth orbit (LEO) is not an open book. While data on many satellites is public, others are shrouded in secrecy, and information is incomplete for others. New research ...

A. From 2013 to 2019, my co-founders and I worked at a company called Team Indus. I was developing guidance, navigation, and ...

Every hurricane season, we become familiar with the counterclockwise-spinning spiral as the near-universal symbol for the storms. But that wouldn’t have been possible without weather satellites to ...

The number of satellites orbiting Earth is rising fast, thanks to private companies such as SpaceX. But just how big will these "megaconstellations" become? And what problems might they cause? When ...