The CES 2023 event covered literal out-of-this-world technology with a specific focus on tech development in low-earth orbit. The panelist was Jackie Woddles, a reporter from CNN, with a panel ...

Starfish Space’s second Otter Pup spacecraft went into Earth orbit today, marking the first step in what the Seattle-area startup hopes will be a successful demonstration of the vehicle’s ability to ...

SpaceX launched another batch of Starlink V2 Mini satellites into orbit from Florida on Sunday morning in its latest mission. The 28 broadband internet satellites were launched into orbit aboard ...

Earth's orbit is an ellipse, not a perfect circle. Earth's distance from the Sun varies by about 3 million miles throughout the year. Earth's orbit's semimajor axis is approximately 93 million miles.

You may well be thinking, “Hang on! Isn’t the whole point of ‘space’ that there’s no air up there?” You’re right, in a way. And yes, rockets and satellites usually rely on actual “rocket” engines to ...

Orbit Fab wants to build “gas stations” for satellites — which means it needs the gas cap, a mechanism for transferring propellant from an orbital tanker to the customer spacecraft. That docking ...

A British-built manufacturing satellite successfully launched into orbit on its first test mission. Cardiff-based startup Space Forge launched the probe — called ForgeStar-1 — aboard SpaceX’s ...

According to footage captured by s2a systems and uploaded to X, two Chinese satellites, Shijian-21 and Shijian-25, flew into extremely close proximity on both June 13 and June 14. This is notable, ...