Satellites

Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Starlink 4-26 mission will launch SpaceX’s next batch of 53 Starlink broadband satellites.…

SpaceX is working on several upgrades to the company’s Starlink satellites in an effort to prevent them from bothering astronomers. The upgrades try to address how Starlink satellites can reflect sunlight as they orbit the Earth. This…

Around 2030, the Landsat program will launch its next satellite, called Landsat Next. It will bravely break from the numerical naming convention. It will also be an upgrade.“Even when Landsat 9 was still being built, we were talking to…

Virgin Orbit launched a rocket carrying seven satellites from California’s Mojave Air and Space Port early Saturday morning at 1:49 AM ET (10:49PM local), marking the small satellite launcher’s first successful night mission. The…

(Image credit: Shutterstock)This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.Karlie Noon, Astronomer, Australian National…

Astronomers say this streak in a Hubble Space Telescope image is likely to have been created by a Starlink satellite flying just a few miles above Hubble. (MAST Image via Nature Astronomy / Simon Porter) Astronomers…

CLEVELAND (WJW) – Dozens of viewers from across the Cleveland area reported seeing a string of bright lights in the sky Thursday night. So, what was it? Astronomer Jay Reynolds confirmed with FOX 8 that the lights are actually…

New research has found that as the number of satellites in Earth orbit continues to increase, their accumulated light pollution will brighten the night sky – making it much harder to do fundamental astronomy. The continued launch of…

Astra, the Alameda-based space launch startup that recently announced its intent to go public via a SPAC merger, has secured a contract to deliver six cube satellites to space on behalf of NASA. Astra stands to be paid $7.95 million…

A research team led by International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) astronomers has studied the molecular-gas content of nearby massive galaxies in a cosmological simulation, focusing on how it depends on galaxy…