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

Who watches the watchmen and who spies on the spy satellites? It turns out it's an optical package called Morning Sparrow ...

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 ...

Micrometeoroids travel so fast that even a flake of paint can punch dime-sized craters in solar panels. NASA modeling shows a ...

SpaceX is set to launch the KF-02 mission Friday morning from Cape Canaveral, carrying Amazon’s Kuiper internet satellites ...

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 ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will have 13 months to develop a low-orbit telescope that will be part of a space ...

NBN Co and Amazon announced an agreement to deliver high-speed, wholesale fixed broadband to customers in parts of regional, ...

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 ...

News Study says climate change will even make Earth's orbit a mess There will be less space for satellites in low Earth orbit by the end of the century. By The Associated Press Wire Service Mar ...

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 ...