A SpaceX rocket launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base lit up the misty Southern California sky on Wednesday night. The ...

Satellites, including those used for GPS and communications, will face greater risks in coming decades during solar-triggered ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Florida on Thursday morning (Aug. 14), carrying 28 Starlink broadband satellites into low Earth orbit.

Starlink satellites launch weekly from Florida, but what are they exactly? Here's a look at SpaceX's Starlink satellites.

A Long March 5B rocket, carrying a new group of low Earth orbit satellites, blasts off from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in ...

Californians could potentially see nearly back-to-back SpaceX launches now that a Starlink mission scheduled for the weekend ...

The BlueWalker 3 satellite was fully deployed, making it the "largest-ever commercial communications array in low Earth orbit ...

An object is said to be in low Earth orbit if it completes a revolution every 128 minutes or less. A 128-minute orbit, according to Kepler's third law, works out to a semi-major axis of 8,413 km ...

In a paper published in Acta Astronautica, the researchers demonstrated how origami may be the solution to low Earth orbit’s growing trash problem. Rather than relying solely on metals to construct ...

It’s sort of Google Earth but with the details focused on low-earth orbit. You can fly around the planet and watch the satellites whiz by or even pick out the hundreds of spent upper-stage ...

A surge in global demand across defense and aerospace sectors—including military weapons, unmanned systems, commercial ...