What’s better than being able to launch satellites quickly to orbit? Having them there already—or so goes the thinking behind a new $60 million Space Force contract to develop an “orbital ...

These Phase 1 satellites, as OroraTech has designated them, will orbit at a steep 97-degree inclination, at an altitude of 340 miles (550 kilometers) above Earth, and are the humble beginning in a ...

Preparing for a Criminal Crisis in Orbit" (Wiley, 2025). Taylor is director of the CSCPG. As they write in their newly published book, "we think the phenomenon will occur," and they offer ...

But in general, the idea is to provide an unpressurized module in which one or more satellites can be pre-positioned in orbit. Such a module would isolate the satellites from the space environment ...

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One of the ways our ears can differ is in the presence of what’s known as Darwin’s tubercle, a small bump on the outer ear that's thought to be an evolutionary hangover. A 2016 study found ...

Next week, Space X is launching a four-day mission to polar orbit in a SpaceX Dragon capsule that could unlock a new area in space for future spaceflights. X/@SpaceX Four space explorers will ...

This year's peak occurs from Monday night into Tuesday morning for those in the U.s. The comet is estimated to take about 415 years to complete a full orbit. Astronomers say the average meteor ...

Fram2, the first human spaceflight to orbit the poles, is scheduled to launch no earlier than 11:20 p.m. EDT on March 31. The SpaceX mission will be crewed by four explorers of the Arctic regions ...

An investor pitch shared with Scientific American shows that the two companies aim to deploy between 200 and 400 laser-fitted small satellites into an orbit roughly 370 miles above Earth’s ...

This next flight has a little less national attention, although it will be the first time humans have flown a polar orbit around the Earth. SpaceX posted Saturday on X that the Crew Dragon ...