Earth’s orbit is getting crowded. About 16,000 satellites currently circle our planet, supporting everything from GPS navigation and weather forecasting to…
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Imagine a piece of space debris the size of a hockey puck slams into a Starlink satellite at about 10…
A proposed constellation of satellites has astronomers very worried. Unlike satellites that reflect sunlight and produce light pollution as an unfortunate…
Every night, as telescopes around the world open their domes to study the cosmos, astronomers are forced to contend with…
NASA’s upcoming Artemis II mission is slated to return astronauts to the Moon no sooner than April 2026. Astronauts were last on…
Last week, three tiny Australian satellites from Curtin University’s Binar Space Program burned up in Earth’s atmosphere. That was always going to…
Most CubeSats weigh less than a bowling ball, and some are small enough to hold in your hand. But the…
If space systems such as GPS were hacked and knocked offline, much of the world would instantly be returned to the…
The US military recently launched a groundbreaking initiative to strengthen ties with the commercial space industry. The aim is to integrate…
Communications companies such as Starlink plan to launch tens of thousands of satellites into orbit around Earth over the next…