There are about 15,000 satellites orbiting the Earth. Most of them, like the International Space Station and the Hubble ...

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 ...

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 ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Which is why it’s fortunate there’s another orbit, even closer to Earth, that promises ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Sven Bilén, Penn State (THE CONVERSATION) There are about 15,000 satellites orbiting ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) As an engineer and professor who is developing technologies to extend the human ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The mother of a 19-year-old woman killed said her daughter "was a beautiful soul who ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) “We moved here because of the grandeur of the land," said John Hegarty. “Take that ...