Satellite News

Scott Kelly, the NASA astronaut who spent nearly a year in orbit in 2015-16, has a new audio course available about leading and achieving in space — and on the ground.

See the moon and Mars rendezvous in the evening sky this Wednesday (Nov. 25).

SpaceX just launched one of its Falcon 9 rockets for a record seventh time. The booster carried a stack of 60 Starlink internet satellites into orbit and then nailed a landing at sea.

SpaceX’s latest Starship prototype fired its engines for the fourth time on Tuesday evening (Nov. 24), keeping the vehicle on track for a landmark test flight next week.

SpaceX will launch 60 new Starlink internet satellites into orbit on a used Falcon 9 rocket tonight (Nov. 24) and you can watch it live online here.

Technology that could help humanity get a handle on the growing space-junk problem will get an orbital test early next year.

A faulty part from a third-party supplier was discovered in Russia’s Soyuz-ST-A rocket at the Guiana Space Center, but emergencies were prevented thanks to the incorporated control system, according to Dmitry Rogozin, head of Russia’s State Space Corporation Roskosmos.

China’s BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS-3) has passed technical verification on its key performance indicators for applications in the civil aviation sector, according to civil aviation authorities.