SpaceX has lost contact with one of its broadband satellites, which is now falling toward Earth due to an unspecified and seemingly mysterious anomaly. The company revealed that a Starlink satellite ...

Starlink is to lower the orbits of about half its satellite constellation over the course of this year, citing safety ...

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The incident, described by observers as "likely caused by an internal energetic source" rather than a collision, resulted in a loss of communication. According to Starlink, the result was a venting of ...

New research highlights the shrinking time window to prevent catastrophic space collisions due to the rapid increase in ...

Astronauts aboard the planets largest man-made satellite celebrate New Year at a very unique time due to their position in orbit of the planet.

Scientists have proposed a new metric for evaluating the orbital environment of Earth. The Crash Clock measures how long it would take for satellites to collide if they stopped executing collision ...

Space debris – the collection of defunct human-made objects in Earth's orbit – is already affecting space agencies, companies ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force is working to develop a new generation of military satellites designed to maneuver unpredictably through space, in contrast to the traditional approach of parking ...

As a true milestone on the path to autonomous space systems, a research team at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) has successfully tested an AI-based attitude controller for satellites ...