Satellite News

The astronauts of NASA’s Apollo 17 spacecraft, the last crewed mission to the moon, took a photograph of Earth and changed the way we visualized our planet forever.

On Wednesday (Dec. 7) the moon will reach its full moon phase as December’s aptly named Cold Moon, the final full moon of 2022, rises for most of the night.

New research solves the puzzle of how amino acids formed within space rocks that bombarded Earth during the violent early epoch of the solar system.

NASA’s Apollo 17 mission lifted off on Dec. 7, 1972, sending Gene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt and Ronald Evans toward Earth’s nearest neighbor.

Three astronauts who helped finish the construction of China’s Tiangong space station are back in Beijing to start the recovery process after spending half a year in orbit.

SpaceX just revealed a new project called Starshield, which will leverage the company’s Starlink satellite-internet tech for government customers.

Orion broadcasts its data signal toward Earth, where it is received by three dishes that make up NASA’s Deep Space Network, but amateur observers can also tune in throughout the mission.

For the past 10 months, Amazon has been testing a machine learning software in space that can analyze Earth observation images on its own and send only the best ones to Earth.