Researchers used a pair of powerful supercomputers to simulate the potential trajectories of 1 million satellites in a ...

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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory creates a cislunar orbit map to help predict satellite stability and improve collision avoidance in increasingly crowded Earth orbits.

The outer space around the Earth is already pretty crowded. Now, tech firms are racing to add more. There are already thousands of satellites hurdling around the Earth in low orbit - many of them are ...

On Jan. 31, 1958, Explorer 1 became the first satellite launched by the United States. Its primary science instrument, a ...

Low Earth orbit is already getting crowded. Around 14,500 active satellites are circling Earth, and roughly two-thirds of them are run by SpaceX. Now, in filings connected to Elon Musk’s plan to fold ...

Could we prevent in-orbit crashes in the future by using advanced computer models?

By Shreepoorna S Rao For the last thirty years, most of the world’s Earth data has come from satellites. That architecture made sense when the primary use case was global mapping, weather, and ...

Planned launch of 500,000 satellites could spoil about one in three Hubble images, even when the telescope stays above Earth's weather.

If executed at the scale, Musk's orbital data center plan could have devastating effects on the environment and the ...

The first wave of Starlink satellites are reaching the end of their five-year lifespans and burning up in droves. Joe Supan is a senior writer for CNET covering home technology, broadband, and moving.