JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Fifty years ago, on Oct. 24, 1975, meteorology took a monumental leap forward when GOES-1 (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite), the world’s first geostationary ...

Faster, more secure connections from space could one day make broadband on planes, ships and even remote roads as easy as turning on a light. The European Space Agency (ESA), Airbus Defense and Space, ...

WASHINGTON — If you can’t beat them, join them. That is the thinking behind a new managed network service offered by satellite operator Intelsat that integrates geostationary satellites, SpaceX’s ...

The European Space Agency has successfully tested a 2.6 Gbps data transmission from a laser satellite orbiting Earth 36,000 ...

Regular followers of space news will know that when satellites or space probes reach the end of their life, they either are de-orbited in a fiery re-entry, or they stay lifeless in orbit, often in a ...

WASHINGTON — A new ground-based telescope developed by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is undergoing calibration and will soon enable wide-field views of objects in ...

A startup space company says it has successfully deployed and tested a kitchen-stove-sized satellite in geostationary orbit and begun delivering Internet service to Alaska. Earlier this month, the ...

On March 14, 2022, GOES-T executed its final engine burn, placing the satellite in geostationary orbit 22,236 miles above Earth. Upon reaching this milestone, GOES-T was renamed GOES-18. GOES ...

Russia has launched a new geostationary weather satellite, Elektro-L No.3, on Tuesday aboard a Proton-M rocket which flew from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Liftoff occurred on time at 18:03 local time (12 ...

A European research aircraft was able to exchange 2.6 gigabits per second with a geostationary satellite for several minutes.