Using a high-energy X-ray system, they turned the satellite effectively transparent, revealing fuel and gas tanks, hidden ...

Light from the half a million satellites that humanity is planning to launch into Earth's orbit in the coming years could ...

When the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) weather satellite GOES-19 turns its gaze toward the sun, scientists don't expect to see our home planet. But there it was ...

A Flowerlike satellite has “bloomed” in outer space, unfolding to reveal the largest radar antenna reflector ever put into orbit. The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR), a joint project ...

A rare satellite view captured a major Pacific tsunami in unprecedented detail, revealing wave behaviors scientists did not ...

On November 29, 1969, the first Australian satellite launched. It was called the Weapons Research Establishment Satellite.

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 ...

WASHINGTON, Sept 30 (Reuters) - France and the United States are planning a second joint mission of coordinated satellite maneuvers in orbit, part of a growing push to sharpen allied spying ...

A hacker with some help from the ESA got Doom to run on a satellite. This was built on years of open-source Doom being ported to every computing device you can conceive of. The experiment showed off ...

WASHINGTON — Despite a surge in satellite deployments, the fundamental operating model for spacecraft hasn’t evolved much since Sputnik launched in 1957: build it, launch it, use it, discard it. This ...

TOWARDS THE end of last year a pair of military satellites, one American and the other French, prepared for a delicate orbital minuet. They were about to conduct a so-called rendezvous and proximity ...

U.S. Air Force technician operates satellite communications systems at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada. Credit: U.S. Air Force ARLINGTON, Va. — The Federal Communications Commission is reshaping how it ...