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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

China’s Guowang and Qianfan constellations will require over a thousand rocket launches.

Russian satellites Kosmos 2581, 2582, and 2583 launched in early February The satellites are orbiting at around 585 km in a near-polar orbit On March 18, a mysterious object was released from one of ...

Twins Pass is back! Get tickets to every home game for one low price Baldelli was ejected in the sixth inning of Monday night’s 4-2 loss to the Royals after vehemently arguing a pitch timer violation ...

COLORADO SPRINGS—U.S. Space Command is co-sponsoring a $20 million effort to build up U.S. on-orbit maneuvering capabilities, its commander, Gen. Stephen Whiting, said April 8. The command is ...

Viasat (VSAT) has signed an agreement with Telesat (TSAT) to integrate Telesat Lightspeed LEO Ka-band capacity into its multi-orbit network to deliver a new standard of connectivity across its ...

HELSINKI — China’s construction of a pair of communications megaconstellations could cloud low Earth orbit with large spent rocket stages for decades or beyond, according to analysts.