As Beijing prepares to tackle space debris, transparency and trust will determine whether the effort is viewed as stewardship ...
Since 2000, China has accumulated more dead rocket mass in long-lived orbits than the rest of the world combined, according ...
A Chinese satellite has used a small 2-watt laser from 36,000 km above Earth to send data faster than Starlink. This surprising success shows how far space technology has come, using just a weak beam ...
The photobomber is a satellite — specifically, one of SpaceX 's Starlink internet satellites, which Maxar identified as ...
BEIJING -- The large Chinese rocket that is out of control and set to reenter Earth's atmosphere this weekend has brought about an alarming but not unprecedented situation. Space debris has crashed ...
A "groundbreaking" Chinese satellite has managed to transmit data five times faster than Elon Musk's Starlink using a laser no more powerful than a nightlight. From 36,000 kilometers above Earth, the ...