ODESSA, Texas (KMID/KPEJ)- West Texans were looking to the skies Saturday night, and many were left wondering: what was that? Around 9:25 p.m. on April 12, a line of bright lights appeared over the ...
Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites are increasingly falling from the sky, with solar storms causing them to deorbit faster than ...
The Defense Department has been warning of the growing risks of weapons in space, but the massive increase in objects about to enter low-Earth orbit will make tracking potential weapons even harder. A ...
The Trump administration plans to cancel a fleet of orbiting data relay satellites managed by the Space Development Agency and replace it with a secretive network that, so far, relies primarily on ...
Satellite drift might not sound like a problem, but it’s a real-world issue that affects everything from your GPS to emergency communications, and engineers have some clever tricks to keep it all in ...
From intelligence gathering to internet usage to navigation, satellites are used daily across the globe. However, their activity is causing serious issues. In February, a team of researchers from ...
California will soon start using satellite technology to track down methane and other greenhouse gas emissions that may otherwise go undetected from sites around the state, such as oil and gas ...