The U.S. government revealed details of a secret satellite program it used to spy on the Soviet Union at the height of ...

Launched between 1971 and 1987 primarily to collect intelligence data on foreign weapon testing, the last satellites in the JUMPSEAT family were withdrawn ...

The NRO describes JUMPSEAT as the United States’ first-generation, highly elliptical orbit (HEO) signals-collection satellite ...

New study warns rising orbital congestion increases Satellite Collision risk as Earth’s crowded low orbit grows more fragile ...

How high must a satellite orbit to stay perfectly synchronized with Earth’s rotation? 🌍 This video determines the exact orbital altitude required for a geosynchronous orbit, clearly explaining the ...

China dual launch failures in January 2026 put Long March 3B and Ceres-2 under the spotlight. Here’s what was disrupted—and ...

China, like the U.S., sees space as a warfighting domain. Credit: Zorazhuang/Getty Images A Long March 6A rocket took off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in Shanxi Province, China, on Jan. 13 ...

Overview attached its laser and optical systems to a Cessna Caravan and flew at an altitude of over 5,000 meters. When flying overhead, the aircraft was able to deliver power to a set of standard ...

Alex Valdes from Bellevue, Washington has been pumping content into the Internet river for quite a while, including stints at MSNBC.com, MSN, Bing, MoneyTalksNews, Tipico and more. He admits to being ...

SpaceX is moving over 4,000 Starlink satellites to a lower orbit. An exec at Elon Musk's rocket company said it would help prevent collisions with rival satellites. SpaceX said last month a Starlink ...

Space X plans to lower the orbit of all Starlink satellites in 2026, Reuters reports. According to the private space company’s chief technology officer Michael Nicolls, the orbit of the satellites ...

Jan 1 (Reuters) - Starlink will begin a ‌reconfiguration of its satellite constellation ‌by lowering all of its satellites orbiting at around 550 km (342 miles) to 480 km over the course of ‍2026, ...