Latest articles by Peter B. de Selding
WorldVu Satellites has secured Qualcomm and Richard Branson’s Virgin Group as investors in the OneWeb satellite Internet constellation.
Elon Musk says SpaceX has filed paperwork for a global satellite Internet project to eventually include some 4,000 satellites and service within 5 years.
Orbital has contracted with Russia’s Energomash to provide RD-181 engines to power the first stage of Orbital’s Antares rocket, replacing
A Europeanized Russian Soyuz rocket successfully placed four O3b Networks Ka-band broadband satellites into an unusual medium-Earth orbit on July 10, 2014.
A Russian-Ukrainian Sea Launch-3SL rocket on May 26 successfully placed the Eutelsat 3B commercial telecommunications satellite into geostationary transfer orbit.
British planetary scientist Colin Pillinger, whose single-minded determination all but forced the European Space Agency to launch the ill-fated Beagle 2 lander to Mars in 2003, is dead at 70.
Thales Alenia Space of Italy has delivered the second of nine pressurized cargo-supply modules for the international space station to Orbital Sciences Corp.’s Wallops Island, VA, facility.
SpaceX Chairman Elon Musk foresees a revolutionary rocket breakthrough.
Six Globalstar mobile communications satellites were successfully placed into low-Earth orbit.
Air Force hopes to avoid future crashes like the 2009 collision between two satellites.
Mobile satellite services operator Thuraya Telecommunications says Libya is jamming its signals.
Rocket launch provider United Launch Alliance plans to cut back its workforce by 19 percent soon due to launch schedule overlaps in Atlas and Delta Rockets.
Russia's Proton rocket will return to service at the end of December to launch a large commercial telecommunications satellite.
Russia's space agency chief has announced that the country's Proton rocket fleet will be grounded pending an investigation into a Dec. 5 launch failure.
A communications satellite launched Thursday (Oct. 28) has been declared a total loss following the discovery of a sizable leak in its fuel reservoir.
A new European policy seeks to broaden access to the International Space Station.
Six new communications satellites launched Tuesday to boost provider Globalstar mobile network.
The zombie satellite Galaxy 15 will continue to pose a signal interference risk to other satellites through at least November.
