KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — As SpaceX launched the four-person crew of the Fram2 mission on Monday night, it was a takeoff for the history books as they will be the first humans to ever orbit Earth ...

which already has more than 7,000 satellites in orbit. One of SpaceX’s biggest advantages is that it can launch its satellites on its own rockets, which are by far the cheapest in the business.

Russian satellites Kosmos 2581, 2582, and 2583 launched in early February The satellites are orbiting at around 585 km in a near-polar orbit On March 18, a mysterious object was released from one of ...

The entire constellation should be in orbit by 2030, according to Cal Fire. The FireSat effort isn't the only project to watch for wildfires from orbit. OroraTech launched its first wildfire ...

Toronto-based Kepler Communications has begun selling on-orbit computing services through the Kepler Network, its upcoming constellation of data transfer satellites. The first customer is Houston, ...

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The Dragon capsule descends under parachutes seconds before splashdown. (Photo from SpaceX video) Four space tourists who orbited the north and south poles returned to Earth on Friday morning ...

"The mission was planned when I lived there, and we fly polar because, in an ISS-like orbit, we are unable to see where we live. From this perspective, the mission has perfectly achieved its goal." ...

The mission carried four passengers in a unique orbit around Earth that allowed humans to pass directly over the North and South poles for the first time. Led by cryptocurrency billionaire Chun ...

A trio of secretive Russian military satellites have released a mystery object into orbit, reigniting fears that Moscow is developing a space-based platform to launch missiles or nuclear weapons ...

His influence and other inner workings of Thao’s orbit are laid out in thousands of city records seized last year by federal prosecutors and made publicly available this week. The documents ...

Amazon is launching 27 satellites into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) next week, kicking off its years-in-the-making plan to set up a massive constellation and deliver internet access anywhere on the globe ...