Satellite

Ukraine first country in Europe to get Starlink satellite phone service

Kyivstar begins trials offering SMS connectivity when ground networks fail

Networks25 Nov 2025 | 7

DARPA making low-hanging satellites that use air to move

Skim the atmosphere and air-breathing VLEO sats can theoretically maintain orbit

Science19 Nov 2025 | 31

Project Kuiper becomes Amazon Leo as satellite network trickles into orbit

Starlink challenger drops the codename, but full-blown service still years out

PaaS + IaaS14 Nov 2025 | 17

Microsoft parks Landsat and Sentinel satellite data in Azure's orbit

NASA's Earth-watching archives find new home in Redmond's cloud, complete with Copilot hype

PaaS + IaaS17 Oct 2025 | 3

Mind the gap – in mobile coverage: UK train signal to stay patchy till 2030

Minister pins hopes on low Earth orbit satellites to plug crap rail connectivity

Networks16 Oct 2025 | 17

Researchers intercept unencrypted satellite traffic from space blabbermouths

Updated University team picks up voice calls, texts, and corporate data from orbit with off-the-shelf kit

Cybersecurity Month14 Oct 2025 | 62

FCC kicks off 'Space Month' with vow to fast-track satellite licensing

Agency aims to replace its default 'no' with default 'yes' while overhauling rules for operators

Public Sector07 Oct 2025 | 7

Britain eyes satellite laser warning system and carrier-launched jet drones

Space sensors and UAVs at sea top MoD's list in new wave of cutting-edge projects

Edge + IoT07 Oct 2025 | 9

Starlink is burning up one or two satellites a day in Earth’s atmosphere

Kessler syndrome is bad; atmospheric incineration may be worse, says astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell

Science06 Oct 2025 | 79

SpaceX bulks up Starlink Direct to Cell with $17B EchoStar spectrum deal

Dreams of one satellite constellation die so another can live

Networks09 Sep 2025 | 6

Gigs in space: Amazon breaks bandwidth barrier with Kuiper's satellite broadband

Signs up JetBlue for in-flight connection, but not until 2027

Off-Prem04 Sep 2025 | 4

Dialing Earth: Skylo set to leapfrog T-Mobile and offer voice calls via satellite

Only a few Android phones will be able to support the service

Networks28 Aug 2025 | 4

Why blow up satellites when you can just hack them?

Black Hat A pair of German researchers showed how easy it is

Security07 Aug 2025 | 59

Mobile industry charts course to smartphone satellite broadband

First services go live, but full-featured coverage depends on new chips, standards, and constellations

Networks06 Aug 2025 | 6

Eutelsat LEO revenue rockets 84% as governments cool on Starlink

OneWeb constellation may be smaller, but it's suddenly looking like a safer bet for some

Networks05 Aug 2025 | 13

Amazon’s Kuiper satellite broadband to offer commercial services in mid-2026, at least in Australia

Updated Maybe sooner in other places

Networks05 Aug 2025 | 6

US Navy won't torpedo hurricane forecast satellite feed after all

Data stream from aging sensor to continue after public backlash and amateur workaround

Science30 Jul 2025 | 12

T-Mobile's satellite service lifts off, and it's open season on rivals

Verizon and AT&T customers can now buy D2C connections à la carte from the magenta monster

Networks24 Jul 2025 | 10

Radio geeks reveal how to access crucial hurricane data after US Department of Defense cut it off

Hams for the win: Amateur-built decoder taps SSMIS satellite data amid NOAA cutoff

Networks21 Jul 2025 | 62

GPS on the fritz? Britain and France plot a backup plan

Cross-Channel pact aims to bolster navigation and timing tech as satellite signals face growing jamming threats

Networks14 Jul 2025 | 70

'Cyber security' behind decision to end defense satellite sharing of hurricane data

Official notice confirms delay to cutoff until the end of July. Not to worry, AI modelling's in the wings

Networks07 Jul 2025 | 55

UK puts out tender for space robot to de-orbit satellites

Updated Got to be a 'clean space superpower' – right, Brits?

Science06 Jul 2025 | 52

Financial 'stretch' for UK to join Europe's Starlink rival, says minister

Possibility of joining IRIS² remote as Britain grapples with fiscal squeeze

Networks05 Jul 2025 | 131

MethaneSAT 'likely not recoverable' after losing contact with Earth

Methane monitoring satellite managed just over a year in orbit before its sudden demise

Science02 Jul 2025 | 27

US Department of Defense will stop sending critical hurricane satellite data

updated No replacement in the wings for info streamed from past their prime rigs, 'termination will be permanent'

Science27 Jun 2025 | 78

Bezos beams up batch two as Project Kuiper plays catch-up with Starlink

ULA's Atlas V deploys second load of Amazon's broadband satellites

Networks24 Jun 2025 | 6

Eutelsat seeks €1.35B to boost LEO network and take the fight to Starlink

French satellite operator plans capital raise backed by state and key investors including Bharti

Science20 Jun 2025 | 9

Atlas V glitch delays second Project Kuiper launch

Amazon's satellite constellation hits another snag as ULA rocket aborts on pad

Science17 Jun 2025 | 12

AST just got a small boost in its D2C battle against Elon Musk's Starlink

But the five-satellite upstart has a short time window

Networks13 Jun 2025 | 4

Saudi CubeSat gets golden ticket on doomed SLS rocket

Trump greenlights slot for Riyadh as NASA's pricey booster teeters on the brink

Science14 May 2025 | 14

Satellite slinger AST reckons newer birds won't outshine stars in night sky

As astronomers gripe about sats screwing observations

Science28 Apr 2025 | 8

Small ocean swirls may have an outsized effect on climate, NASA satellite shows

SWOT satellite lets scientists observe small-scale eddies and waves for the first time

Science17 Apr 2025 | 16

20 years on, DART still a masterclass in how not to rendezvous in orbit

Two decades have passed since NASA made two spacecraft collide

Science16 Apr 2025 | 11

Satellite phone tech coming to your mobe this year – but who pays for it?

Operators mulling whether to price tech into subs, says report, which notes Musk's Starlink satellite dominance

Networks10 Apr 2025 | 45

Amazon's Project Kuiper satellites now boarding the rocket to relevance

Jeff Bezos' other space business finally shows signs of life with launch scheduled for next week

Science03 Apr 2025 | 7

European Gaia mapping satellite is retired but proves very tough to kill

I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that

Science31 Mar 2025 | 27

US Space Force warns Chinese satellites are 'dogfighting' in space

Begun, preparation for orbital wars has

Science20 Mar 2025 | 50

Los Alamos boffins whip up a speedometer for satellites

First license plates, now a way to calculate pace in orbit. Speeding tickets next?

Science17 Mar 2025 | 23

Earth's atmosphere is shrinking and thinning, which is bad news for Starlink and other LEO Sats

The thermosphere usually drags space junk to its doom. As it thins, ruined orbits are a possibility

Science11 Mar 2025 | 72

Eutelsat in talks with Euro leaders as they mull Starlink replacement in Ukraine

Increasingly shaky relationship with the States has Europe considering options

Networks07 Mar 2025 | 187

SpaceX loses a Falcon 9 booster and scrubs a Starship

Reusable first stage of workhorse tips over after landing

Science04 Mar 2025 | 70

Los Alamos boffins slap blinkers on satellites so we know who to blame in a crash

Extremely Low Resource Optical Identifier no brighter than LED, but readable with telescopes

Networks21 Feb 2025 | 26

Telco to open lab to test cell network interoperability with satellites

Because 4G notspots aren't much good to anyone

Networks19 Feb 2025 | 1

NASA solar mission data recovering after server room flood fiasco

Spacecraft weather solar storms, but ground processing laid low by water

Disaster Recovery Week07 Feb 2025 | 22

Amazon's Kuiper secures license to take on Starlink in the UK

Everybody is going to play nice, OK?

Networks04 Feb 2025 | 33

Japan's wooden satellite exits International Space Station

Carefully crafted wooden box, LignoSat, is on its own

Science08 Jan 2025 | 48

Eutelsat OneWeb blames 366th day for 48-hour date disaster

Leap year curse strikes satellite broadband vendor

Networks06 Jan 2025 | 62

Will 2025 be the year satellite-to-smartphone services truly take off?

Analysis Connectivity direct to unmodified mobes looms, thanks to Starlink and co

Networks02 Jan 2025 | 39

Taiwan in talks to tap Amazon's Project Kuiper space broadband

In case of submarine cable failure, call Jeff Bezos

Networks18 Dec 2024 | 6

Europe signs off on €10.6B IRIS² satellite broadband deal

Service promised by 2030 for bloc's take on Starlink

Networks16 Dec 2024 | 41

China preps another rocket that Beijing hopes will become its workhorse

Long March-8A improves payload by forty percent and comes just a month after Long March 12 debut

Science12 Dec 2024 | 6

Starlink gets FCC nod for space calls, but can't dial up full power

Authorization conditional on operations not causing harmful interference

Networks27 Nov 2024 | 35

NASA and Microsoft intro Earth Copilot to tame satellite data overload

Proof of concept allows geospatial datasets to be conversationally queried

AI + ML16 Nov 2024 | 9

Japan's wooden cube-shaped satellite rockets to space

Wooden datacenters? Japan can build spacecraft out of the stuff

Networks05 Nov 2024 | 24

FCC chair: Mobile dead spots will end when space-based and ground comms merge

Jessica Rosenworcel looks at policy challenges for the next decade

Networks29 Oct 2024 | 4

US lawmakers dig into FCC's $900M Starlink snub in wake of Hurricane Helene

Nearly a billion dollars in rural broadband subsidies wouldn't go amiss

Networks08 Oct 2024 | 39