High Earth Orbit Robotics
It's been with us for three years, astronomers say. Sadly, it'll probably be gone by spring.
Don’t worry, this was a planned end for a tiny satellite that has been a huge success.
Rocket Lab kicked off the International Astronautical Congress with the news that it’ll begin offering small satellite delivery service to orbits beyond low Earth orbit, where it currently ...
The Astrodynamics Technical Committee advances the science of trajectory determination, prediction and adjustment, and also spacecraft navigation and attitude determination.
NEOSSat - First space telescope designed to detect and track asteroids as well as satellites
Planet | SkySats 16-21 to Launch on SpaceX Falcon 9 Rideshare Missions
SAN FRANCISCO (Planet PR) — Planet is set to launch six more SkySat satellites (SkySats 16-21) into Low Earth Orbit this summer, rounding out the fleet of 15 SkySats already in ...
The future of space is exciting, but there’s work to do to ensure that the benefits are spread equitably and ethically around the world.
Don’t get too attached, though. It’s not sticking around.
One of my favorite kinds of photos is one where we see something familiar in an unfamiliar way. Perhaps it's from an unusual angle, or the lighting is odd, or the colors distorted in such a ...
According to their calculations, it would actually be possible to construct such a structure using existing technology.
What can be done with the thousands of dead satellites orbiting Earth? One expert has laid out a scheme for turning them into building materials … for the moon.
Looking at the Earth from above
Sometimes, when we post a cool picture of the Earth taken from space, Popular Science gets questions about why—if there's so much garbage in space—we don't see a galactic landfill orbiting ...