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

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 ...

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 ...

A Falcon 9 launch carrying 24 Starlink satellites destined for low-Earth orbit has a launch window scheduled for ...

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 ...

A newly discovered asteroid, 2024 YR4, has scientists buzzing with its potential to collide with the Moon and create a ...

In a paper published in Acta Astronautica, the researchers demonstrated how origami may be the solution to low Earth orbit’s ...

At these distances, the satellites remain within Earth’s protective magnetic shield and can reliably measure the planet’s ...

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 ...