Satellites
NASA is Testing out new Composite Materials for Building Lightweight Solar Sail Supports
Space exploration is driven by technology - sometimes literally in the case of propulsion technologies. Solar sails are one of…
Teeny Tiny Space Telescope has Taken Thousands of Pictures of Both Earth and Space
A new nanosat has been quietly snapping over 4500 pictures of the Earth and the sky after its launch on…
Teeny Tiny CubeSats Could Have Deployable Mirrors Like James Webb
Tiny CubeSats could give us a detailed view of Earth in real time, thanks to folding adjustable mirrors.
This is Currently the World’s Largest Iceberg
A gigantic chunk of ice recently broke off from an ice shelf in Antarctica, and is currently the world’s largest…
A Solution to Space Junk: Satellites Made of Mushrooms?
According "cyber farmer" Max Justice, a solution to the growing problem of space junk and toxic chemicals could come in…
Starlink and OneWeb Have Their First Avoidance Maneuver With Each Other’s Constellations
Two companies, OneWeb and SpaceX, are racing to put fleets of thousands of communication satellites into orbit. In March they…
Earth’s Atmosphere Can Generate a “Space Hurricane”
There are hurricanes in space. Researchers looking through archival data found evidence of a previously unobserved phenomenon — a giant…
A new Method to Capture High-Resolution Images of Space Debris
“You can’t hit what you can’t see” is a common phrase in sports and was originally derived to describe baseball…
How Long Will Space Junk Take to Burn Up? Here’s a Handy Chart
If the Roman Empire had been able to launch a satellite in a relatively high Low Earth Orbit – say…
Virgin Orbit Successfully Launches a Batch of Satellites From an Airplane
Virgin Orbit has successfully tested its new air-launch system (LauncherOne) that will deliver small satellites to orbit in the near…