Scientists have uncovered dozens of previously undetected fragments of space debris, revealing a “potential minefield” in ...

The satellites that run your weather forecasts, your television, and a significant portion of global communications all occupy a narrow band of space 36,000 kilometers above the equator. They share ...

In a new study, published in the Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, Warwick researchers led an international effort to ...

Astronomers have detected space debris as small as 5 centimeters in geosynchronous orbit, revealing a largely hidden ...

The world’s leading space powers desperately want to know what the others are up to high above the equator. For more than a decade, the US military has operated a fleet of “inspector” satellites ...

It's been decades since humanity first sent a satellite into orbit, and during all this time we kind of become experts at it. What we still haven't mastered yet is extending the life of these ...

Last year, scientists drove up Mauna Loa volcano on Hawai'i, aimed a laser at a reflector positioned on Haleakala peak on Maui, and beamed rapid pulses of laser light through 150 kilometers of ...

A new study suggests creating a satellite constellation, dubbed StormWall, that could reduce the impacts of the worst solar ...

The OEO satellite promises a geosynchronous orbit around the equator, low latency, and a drastic cut in costs—using readily available technology. Thousands of satellites have been deployed during ...

Engineers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's (NRL) Naval Center for Space Technology (NCST) recently completed robotic payload component level testing for the Defense Advanced Research Projects ...

A geosynchronous orbit (sometimes abbreviated GSO) is an Earth-centered orbit with an orbital period that matches Earth's rotation on its axis, 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds (one sidereal day).