KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — As SpaceX launched the four-person crew of the Fram2 mission on Monday night, it was a takeoff for the history books as they will be the first humans to ever orbit Earth ...

The four novice space explorers will climb into SpaceX’s Dragon capsule named Resilience and become the first humans to do a 90-degree circularized orbit, or polar orbit. He said this will be a ...

In 1985, a sitcom about four women who were considered past their prime debuted in prime time. “The Golden Girls” turned out ...

On March 21, the Ceres-1 Y17 rocket—developed by Chinese space company Galactic Energy—successfully delivered a Yunyao meteorological satellite into orbit. Among the mission’s key components was a ...

The first four humans to orbit Earth’s poles are sharing their experiences from their historic mission. In a discussion with NSF, the crew of Fram2 provided insight into their groundbreaking ...

which already has more than 7,000 satellites in orbit. One of SpaceX’s biggest advantages is that it can launch its satellites on its own rockets, which are by far the cheapest in the business.

Canadian satellite firm Kepler Communications has unveiled plans for on-orbit compute capacity through its optical inter-satellite links across its constellation the Kepler Network, and announced ...

The problem of debris in Earth orbit is getting worse. According to the European Space Agency's (ESA) annual Space Environment Report, the amount of space debris is rising quickly. We're sending ...

The Hyperion investment follows those of SETT (a Spanish Government fund), Global Portfolio ... Sateliot plans a constellation of low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites. Its goal, with standards-compliant ...

WHERE IS THE best place to build a data centre? Not on Earth at all, but in orbit, claims Philip Johnston, chief executive of Starcloud. The cost of launching things into space is falling fast ...

And increasingly local people don't want them built nearby. Putting data centres in space – either in orbit around Earth, or on the Moon - the theory goes, means they can't do quite so much harm.

SPACE SYMPOSIUM — The Space Force today unveiled a new program, called Orbital Watch, designed to share unclassified information about threats on orbit with more than 900 commercial operators ...