India has Space-Based Surveillance (SBS) program since 2001 with at least 10 Cartosat and Risat series satellites operational with ambitions to place another 52 surveillance and communication ...

China launched the latest in a series classified satellites into geosynchronous transfer orbit Sunday while disclosing little ...

Greenhouse gas emissions could reduce drag in the upper atmosphere, leaving more space debris in orbit and making satellites ...

RISAT-1A Satellite: In the early hours of Monday, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched its radar imaging satellite RISAT-1A which is codenamed EOS-4, ISRO's first ...

Elon Musk's internet satellites have been a game changer for people in rural areas, but scientists are alarmed that plans to launch thousands more will be perilous for our skies. Joe Supan is a ...

A vast network of military satellites belonging to the US has long underpinned its dominance in space. But China is challenging the US status as the space superpower, and its satellite system is ...

In January more than 100 communications satellites burned up in Earth’s atmosphere, vaporising as they crashed towards the planet at about eight kilometres a second. These spectacular exits are ...

Urban Sky, which describes itself as “a stratospheric platform company”, has closed a $30 million Series B investment round for its ... the company says amounts to a “personally deployable satellite”.

SpaceX launched a batch of 21 Starlink internet satellites from Florida's Space Coast on Sunday night (March 2). The Falcon 9 rocket flying the mission lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force ...