satellites

While Elon Musk insists he takes the orbital debris issue seriously, with SpaceX firing 60 satellites into space in a single week in May 2019, chances are good some of them will encounter problems. And when satellites break, which is…

The farmer’s variation of the line from the movie Field of Dreams (“If you build it, they will come.”) would be “If you plant it, it will grow.” Unfortunately, since life is not fiction, it’s just not true. The need to accurately predict…

The world’s first autonomous rocket factory, Relativity, has landed a contract with Telesat, the renowned global satellite operator, that allows it to play a role in Telesat’s innovative LEO satellite constellation. Telesat will now have…

Smart, tiny, and powerful. That may be the future of space technology, and Lockheed Martin’s new satellites are ready to fill a big role. A new generation of satellites launching this year will be able to change their missions in orbit,…