Satellite News

These planets, including Earth, benefit from the star’s warmth and light.

Two Russian cosmonauts are taking a spacewalk outside the International Space Station Wednesday (Nov. 18), and you can watch their six-hour excursion live online.

Will we get to see what happened to the crew of the crashed spacecraft from the future?

Stratolaunch has started construction on a prototype of a Mach 6 vehicle designed to launch from the world’s biggest airplane.

On Nov. 17, 1967, NASA’s Surveyor 6 spacecraft made the first liftoff from the lunar surface. See how it happened in our “On This Day In Space” series!

Arianespace announced the loss of the Vega VV17 mission, which was carrying two payloads, SEOSAT-Ingenio, an Earth-science observation satellite for the European Spatial Agency (ESA) and TARANIS for France’s National Centre for Space Studies (CNES). Human error is suspected to have caused the mishap.

The fifth Chang Zheng-5 rocket, to be used to launch China’s Chang’e-5 lunar probe, was vertically transported to the launching area at the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in south China’s Hainan Province on Tuesday.

Viasat Inc. announced that its solid-state, fully-electronic phased array flat panel antenna, selected by SES for the O3b mPOWER satellite communications system, has entered the Test Readiness Review (TRR) stage of the programme.