Satellite

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 | 34

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

SpaceX accuses 'meme-stock' rival of 'misinformation' over Starlink signals waiver

AST SpaceMobile partners 'provide zero technical support for their opposition,' letter to FCC rages

Networks04 Oct 2024 | 29

Satellite phones are coming, but users not happy to pay much extra for the capability

Has someone told all the direct-to-cell investors?

Networks02 Oct 2024 | 49

China calls for realtime censorship of satellite broadband

Great Firewall reaches all the way into space

Networks30 Sep 2024 | 27

Musk's Starlink rockets to 4 million subscribers

Satellite broadband mega-constellation passes mega-milestone

Networks27 Sep 2024 | 51

Starfish Space to tackle orbital junk for NASA with SSPICY Otter

Is this a debris inspection mission or an Ubuntu release?

Science26 Sep 2024 | 3

Starlink's new satellites emit 30x more radio interference than before, drowning cosmic signals

V2 sats beam 10M times brighter noise, hampering telescopes

Networks19 Sep 2024 | 112

ESA and Neuraspace ink 2-year deal for Space Traffic wrangling

Multi-million euro package to control satellite swerving and debris dodging

Science16 Sep 2024 | 5

FCC boss starts bringing up Musk's Starlink dominance, antitrust concerns

SpaceX broadband network now accounts for nearly two-thirds of all active satellites in orbit

Networks12 Sep 2024 | 52

Cluster II spacecraft reenters and burns up with a nod to its controllers

Salsa's final act: Reminding us it was the humans all along

Science09 Sep 2024 | 6

Verizon taps another satellite operator to make texting from the middle of nowhere easier

iPhone-like functionality coming to other devices on the network soon

Networks29 Aug 2024 |

Chinese broadband satellites may be Beijing's flying spying censors, think tank warns

Ground stations are the perfect place for the Great Firewall to block things China finds unpleasant

Networks28 Aug 2024 | 27

Japan's Astroscale wins contract for space junk harvesting robotic arm

The plan is to do away with an H-IIA rocket upper stage – and prove it's possible

Science19 Aug 2024 | 9

Shots fired as AT&T and Verizon ask FCC to block Starlink's direct-to-cell plans

Rivals claim signal waiver would interfere with terrestrial networks

Networks16 Aug 2024 | 40

Would you rather buy space broadband from a billionaire, or Communist China?

Beijing's first Starlink-slayers are in orbit, and buyers beyond the Great Firewall are on the agenda

Networks08 Aug 2024 | 51

SpaceX Falcon 9 set for comeback after upper-stage failure

Cracked line blamed for leak

Science26 Jul 2024 | 19

Astroscale space janitor attempts fly-around of derelict upper stage

ADRAS-J avoids adding to debris problem with autonomous collision avoidance

Science10 Jul 2024 | 7

AST SpaceMobile promises the Moon with seamless satellite phone service

Yet all its birds remain resolutely earthbound

Networks04 Jul 2024 | 5

UN telecom watchdog wags finger at Russia for satellite interference

European neighbors say interference comes from Moscow and Kaliningrad, Kremlin claims it didn't find anything

Networks02 Jul 2024 | 51

Chinese space company accidentally launches rocket in test gone wrong

10, 9, 8 ... hang on, did anyone check we bolted this thing down properly?

Science01 Jul 2024 | 50

Amazon's Project Kuiper slips to end of 2024 for first full-scale launch

Starlink rival slips again, but service still set for 2025

Networks28 Jun 2024 | 4

ISS 'nauts told to duck and cover after dead Russian sat sprays space junk

This has happened before after Moscow made a mess with a missile

Science28 Jun 2024 | 18

Humanity's satellite habit could end up choking Earth's ozone layer

Just when you think we've solved chlorofluorocarbons

Science25 Jun 2024 | 92

Since joining NATO, Sweden claims Russia has been borking Nordic satellites

If Putin likes jammin', we hope NATO likes jammin' too

Security21 Jun 2024 | 56

Satellite phone service could soon become the norm

America's Big 3 cellcos all signed up already, though most of the 'non terrestrial' tech not actually live yet

Networks19 Jun 2024 | 48

Flying phone base stations to take off over Japan in 2026

NTT Docomo teams with Airbus subsidiary to make it happen

Networks04 Jun 2024 | 2