U.S. and Chinese satellites routinely spy on each other in orbit, rehearsing for more aggressive operations in the event of war.

As a true milestone on the path to autonomous space systems, a research team at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) has successfully tested an AI-based attitude controller for satellites ...

There are about 15,000 satellites orbiting Earth. Most of them, like the International Space Station and the Hubble Telescope ...

A Long March 4C rocket lifts off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center, carrying Shiyan-28B (01) into orbit, July 3, 2025. Credit: Ourspace HELSINKI —A Chinese Shiyan satellite appears in a ...

Russia is a waning space power, but President Vladimir Putin has made sure he still has a saber to rattle in orbit. This has become more evident in recent weeks, when we saw a pair of rocket launches ...

An image of the Port of Jebel Ali in the UAE taken by BlackSky’s newest Gen-3 satellite shortly after its Nov. 20 launch on an Electron. Credit: BlackSky BREMEN, Germany — Earth observation company ...

Project Kuiper is a subsidiary of Amazon, the online commerce behemoth that billionaire Jeff Bezos founded in 1994. The venture is meant to challenge Starlink, an internet satellite constellation ...