Move over, GPS: Navigation satellites in low-Earth orbit are making a comeback

New navigation satellites in low-Earth orbit could provide 100 times stronger signal strength compared to GPS and other ...

Astronomers Found a Hidden Swarm of Space Junk Threatening Earth’s Most Valuable Orbit

Earth’s geosynchronous orbit (GEO) holds some of the most valuable satellites that carry out tasks for phones, television, ...
Space on MSN

Getting Vikram-1 to orbit: Inside Skyroot Aerospace's coming bid to make spaceflight history

Backed by a $1.1 billion valuation, Skyroot Aerospace is betting that its Vikram-1 rocket can help transform India's ...

Falling Starlink Satellites Could Be Having An Alarming Effect On The Earth's Atmosphere

Satellites and other objects falling from orbit into our atmosphere tend to burn up, but can that harm our atmospheres in ...
Opinion

13,000 tons of space junk clutters Earth orbit. Here's how it could be cleaned up

Seventy years ago, Earth had only one satellite: the moon. Now it has more than 15,000—about 10,000 of which are owned by Elon Musk's SpaceX. The world's first trillionaire plans to launch 1 million ...
Earth.com

Tiny space debris threatens Earth's busiest satellite highway

A new analysis of years-old telescope images revealed tiny pieces of space debris that could threaten satellites in ...
Ars Technica

There are 2,000-plus dead rockets in orbit—here’s a rare view of one

There are more than 2,000 mostly intact dead rockets circling the Earth, but until this year, no one ever launched a satellite to go see what one looked like after many years of tumbling around the ...

The space race is coming for pharma: Why drug development is heading to lower Earth orbit

Industries from semiconductors to fiber-optic cables stand to benefit from space research and manufacturing, but experts told CNBC that medicine could see the most immediate disruption. A flurry of ...
Ventureburn

SWISSto12 Raises $70 Million in Series C Round To Scale Multi-Orbit Business

Space startup SWISSto12 raises $70 million in Series C funding to expand its HummingSat and HummingLink production across ...