If you look up at the night sky in a dark enough place, with enough patience you’re almost sure to see a satellite cross the sky. It’s pretty cool to think you’re watching light reflect off a hunk of ...

The AST SpaceMobile's BlueWalker 3 satellite, with its large 64.3 square meter antenna, exhibits exceptionally high brightness (magnitude 0.4), rivaling prominent stars and exceeding the International ...

"It is unacceptably bright for many sky observers around the world." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. On Monday (Oct. 2), ...

It stands to reason, that should you wish to communicate with a satellite, whatever antenna you use should point at that satellite. Some of us have done this by hand, following the bright dot of the ...

The satellite dish is symbolic of the television revolution that took place in un-cabled countries in the 1980s. This is particularly true here in the UK where the ‘Dish war’ between Sky’s cheap bird ...

On some nights, one of the brightest objects in the sky is neither a planet nor a star. It is a telecommunications satellite called BlueWalker 3, which at times outshines 99% of the stars visible from ...

Astronomers warn that BlueWalker 3, a test spacecraft with a large array of antennas, could be the first of many larger satellites in low-Earth orbit that interfere with astronomical observations. By ...