Most vehicles navigating the Washington Beltway today at 65 mph are equipped with more safety features than spacecraft traveling in low Earth orbit at 17,000 mph. In the U.S., the National Highway ...

Aetherflux, the space solar startup founded by Baiju Bhatt, the billionaire co-founder of Robinhood, has raised $50 million ...

The current state of Earth's climate has no recorded precedent. The consequences of the sheer volume of anthropogenic ...

Find out more about the weather criteria for a Falcon 9 launch. The 23 satellites from the Starlink company, owned by SpaceX, will be heading to low-Earth orbit to join the thousands already there.

SpaceX plans to launch 28 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Monday.Originally set for 6:15 p.m. on Sunday the liftoff is now targeted for Monday ...

The idea of flying satellites in "very" low-Earth orbit is not new. Dating back to the dawn of the space age in the late 1950s, the first US spy satellites, as part of the Corona program, orbited ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Starlink is the name of a satellite network developed by the private spaceflight company ...

Today, there are over 10,000 satellites drifting through low-Earth orbit, which describes the region of space up to 1,200 miles, or 2,000 kilometers, from Earth's surface.

Climate Change, Already Causing Problems on Earth, Could Soon Create a Mess for Orbiting Satellites Climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a ...