Eventually, NASA plans ... to raise its orbit farther and farther from Earth. A final engine burst Monday allowed Photon to break from Earth's gravitational pull and send the satellite on its ...

After going 0-for-2 from the Space Coast with its Rocket 3 design, Astra Space is shelving the model to focus on its future larger rocket plans, but that decision could mean NASA has to hunt for a new ...

NASA is investigating alternative ways to launch four Earth science cubesats after Astra discontinued the rocket originally ...

The $1.2 billion SBIRS satellite is the sixth and final member of a space-based fleet of infrared early warning stations.

Russia launched an Iranian satellite into orbit on Tuesday from southern Kazakhstan, just three weeks after President ...

The $1.2 billion SBIRS satellite is the sixth and final member of a space-based fleet of infrared early warning stations.

That ending with be fiery: Within a few years the little satellite’s low-Earth orbit will decay and it will burn up in the atmosphere. Its builders had to file papers with NASA establishing that ...

The rocket company SpaceX is due to break its own record ... to create a 'megaconstellation'. But NASA has said peppering low Earth orbit with so many satellites could 'impact science and ...

CAPSTONE is expected to arrive in its lunar orbit on November 13. Read more: NASA satellite breaks Earth's orbit, will approach the Moon Notably, CAPSTONE also has new technologies that will be ...