Satellite News

Russian cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev completed the first test flight at the end of the European robotic arm as part of a successful spacewalk at the International Space Station on Wednesday (Aug. 9).

Virgin Galactic’s reusable spaceplane, VSS Unity, will launch its second commercial spaceflight mission on Thursday (Aug. 10). Here’s how to follow the action.

A new technology uses satellite data to provide farming advice to Bangladeshi, Indian and Pakistani farmers.

The heat shield for the Orion spacecraft is the only serious concern on NASA’s Artemis 2 to-do list right now. But the Artemis 3 moon-landing mission has more open questions.

Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have begun getting the goods on Earendel, the most distant star ever detected.

Cool stars with powerful magnetic fields could have remarkably fast stellar winds that strip away their planets’ atmospheres, making even “habitable zone” worlds less friendly to life.