Satellite News

The Explorers Club will hold a virtual lecture on SpaceX and the future of multiplanetary exploration today (Sept. 14) at 7 p.m. EDT (2300 GMT). Watch it live here!

Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS) has been selected to provide the science payloads for the two Janus spacecraft. Last week, Janus was approved by NASA to proceed with final design of the mission hardware, including the MSSS cameras (called “JCam”).

The telecommunications satellite developed under ESA’s SmallGEO Partnership Project has passed three years of service in orbit.

Virgin Galactic will fly to space again next month, if all goes according to plan.

From having a day longer than its year to its wind speeds faster than tornadoes, Venus is odd.

A chemical you’ve likely never heard of has burst into the news thanks to scientists’ announcement that they have detected phosphine, which they say may be a sign of life, in the clouds of Venus.

Discovering life beyond Earth may well start with a sniff, a whiff of some chemical that scientists struggle to explain without invoking a strange, shadowy microbe.

Venus isn’t the only world beyond Earth where scientists have gotten a possible whiff of life.