The Boeing-made Intelsat 33e satellite broke apart in orbit over the weekend. But company representatives don't yet know why. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Satellite streaks could spoil about one in three Hubble images, even when the telescope stays above Earth's weather.

HELSINKI — China launched the first of a new “high orbit” internet satellite series Thursday, apparently to provide internet services to China and surrounding areas. A Long March 3B/G rocket lifted ...

Live multi-orbit proof-of-concept shows session continuity from a geostationary earth orbit to an emulated low Earth orbit ...

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An unknown small object, traveling thousands of miles per hour, punctured a satellite in Earth's orbit. The satellite company NanoAvionics released images online showing the damage to its MP42 ...

Ending an era in U.S. rocketry, United Launch Alliance fired off its 16th and final triple-core Delta 4 Heavy Tuesday, launching a classified spy satellite in the last hurrah of a storied family of ...

Months after Starfish Space said it was giving up on its plan to test its satellite docking system in orbit, due to a thruster failure, the Tukwila, Wash.-based startup managed to coax one last ...

A recently launched Russian satellite is getting uncomfortably cozy with a U.S. reconnaissance satellite, leading Space Command to worry that it’s part of an anti-satellite weapon being deployed to ...

An Intelsat communication satellite built by Boeing has exploded and broken up in geostationary orbit. Intelsat confirmed the news in a press release, declaring the satellite a "total loss." The US ...