There are about 15,000 satellites orbiting Earth. Most of them, like the International Space Station and the Hubble Telescope, reside in low Earth orbit, or LEO, which tops out at about 1,200 miles (2 ...

Very low Earth orbit satellites are moving from engineering curiosity to strategic priority, promising sharper images, faster ...

More objects are being launched into space than ever, and most are headed for low Earth orbit. This region of space has become increasingly crowded with launches from SpaceX and others that have ...

This depicts the satellite-filled sky that is now a reality and getting more crowded every week! This adds together exposures taken over just 30 minutes on an early June night when, from my latitude ...

With each new spacecraft launched, the risk of orbital collisions grows. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Hundreds of satellites ...

Michael Nicolls, SpaceX's vice president of Starlink engineering, said on Thursday that all SpaceX satellites operating at around 550 kilometers (342 miles) will be reconfigured to ...

NASA’s DiskSat launched into low Earth orbit early Thursday morning from the company’s Launch Complex 2 on Wallops Island, Virginia.Four plate-shaped spacecraft demonstrated a new small spacecraft ...

Solstar plans to combine its space-based communications products and services with Momentus' space logistics, launch, payload deployment and on-orbit services. BRISBANE, Australia – Momentus and ...

Sven Bilén founder and co-owner of Victoria Defense, which seeks to commercialize VLEO and other space technologies. He receives funding from DARPA and NASA related to VLEO technologies. Which is why ...