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For most of the space age, our presence in Earth orbit has been relatively modest. Until the beginning of the 21st century, only a few hundred…

February 2, 20262 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmSpaceX plans to launch one million satellites to power orbital AI data centerElon Musk’s SpaceX is set…

February 1, 20261 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmU.S. quietly declassifies Cold–War era ‘JUMPSEAT’ surveillance satellitesThe National Reconnaissance Office has now declassified a satellite program…

Jeff Bezos’s space company Blue Origin on Wednesday announced a plan to deploy 5,408 satellites in space for a communications network that will serve data centers,…

December 18, 20253 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmSatellites Used to Have Months to Avoid Collisions—Now They Have DaysIn the era of mega constellations, spacecraft…

The growing number of satellites overhead may soon obscure photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and other orbiting observatories. New research finds that passing satellites…

On a recent mid-November evening, at precisely 7:12 p.m., a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on the Florida coast.…

That suggests anyone could set up similar hardware somewhere else in the world and likely obtain their own collection of sensitive information. After all, the researchers…

Amateur astronomers and photographers from around Australia were invited to submit their out of this world photos for Central West Astronomical Society’s annual astrophotography competition, the…