SpaceX has been attempting to launch a Falcon 9 rocket since Saturday, Aug. 9 to deploy internet-beaming Starlink satellites ...

Low-Earth orbit has become a battleground for companies and militaries. Apex Technology wants to provide standardized ...

Californians could potentially see nearly back-to-back SpaceX launches now that a Starlink mission scheduled for the weekend has twice been postponed.

The BlueWalker 3 satellite was fully deployed, making it the "largest-ever commercial communications array in low Earth orbit ...

Nearly back-to-back SpaceX rocket launches could take place in California now that a weekend Starlink mission has twice been postponed.

Starlink satellites launch weekly from Florida, but what are they exactly? Here's a look at SpaceX's Starlink satellites.

Privately held SpaceX’s Starlink is currently the dominant provider of low-Earth orbit satellite internet, with a ...

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 is targeting Thursday, August 14, for the launch of 28 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

In a paper published in Acta Astronautica, the researchers demonstrated how origami may be the solution to low Earth orbit’s growing trash problem. Rather than relying solely on metals to construct ...

An object is said to be in low Earth orbit if it completes a revolution every 128 minutes or less. A 128-minute orbit, according to Kepler's third law, works out to a semi-major axis of 8,413 km ...

It’s sort of Google Earth but with the details focused on low-earth orbit. You can fly around the planet and watch the satellites whiz by or even pick out the hundreds of spent upper-stage ...

News Study says climate change will even make Earth's orbit a mess There will be less space for satellites in low Earth orbit by the end of the century. By The Associated Press Wire Service Mar ...