The name Jumpseat was first revealed in a 1986 book by the investigative journalist Seymour Hersh on the Soviet Union’s 1983 ...

Ground-based observations suggest the former geostationary inspector satellite suffered a fragmentation event months after ...

One of the most important satellite launches of all time was that of Sputnik. When the Soviet satellite became the first man-made satellite to orbit Earth on October 4, 1957, space must have seemed ...

Starfish Space just scored a $52.5 million contract to deorbit satellites for the U.S. Space Force, the first deal ever ...

Launched between 1971 and 1987 primarily to collect intelligence data on foreign weapon testing, the last satellites in the JUMPSEAT family were withdrawn from service in 2006. A memorandum dated Dec.

The sky is getting crowded. In the last few years, the number of satellite launches has increased by an order of magnitude as mega-constellations of internet-powering hardware crowd into low Earth ...

Starlink is a satellite internet service operated by SpaceX, providing connectivity to millions, especially in remote areas. Thousands of Starlink satellites have been launched into orbit, ...

On March 15th at 8:15 p.m. Beijing time (March 14th at 8:42 p.m. EDT; 5:42 p.m. PDT), China launched two satellites atop a Yuanzheng-1S mounted on a Long March-2C rocket. While the first and second ...

Scientists have developed a way to generate tiny amounts of solar energy at night. It’s true potential could be in space.

Satellite firm Open Cosmos has launched the first two satellites of its new Ka-Band constellation, heralding its entrance to ...