Like many engineers, Sarah Downs says she knew she wanted to pursue a STEM career from a young age. As a teenager, she discovered robotics through her Tulsa, Okla., middle school’s First Lego League team, and she fell in love with the field, she says….
SpaceX’s Starlink satellites made over 355,000 collision avoidance maneuvers over the past year with each satellite now dodging other objects almost weekly.
“The debris in geosynchronous orbit is a potential minefield.”
Reflect Orbital just got approval to launch its first light-directing space mirror, which it plans to do later this year. Tens of thousands more such craft could follow over the next 10 years.
A new dog collar with GPS tracking enabled by SpaceX’s Starlink direct-to-mobile network promises connectivity from almost anywhere.
SpaceX has applied for approval to operate a 100,000-member megaconstellation of next-gen Starlink satellites in Earth orbit. And each of the new spacecraft will weigh about 4,400 pounds.
A constellation of cubesats fitted with special detectors could sniff out nuclear weapons hidden on satellites launched by adversary nations, a new study suggests.
The American Earth-observation company Vantor is now mapping Earth from space in 3D, and the images are stunning.
The U.S. Space Force has acquired one of its first publicly acknowledged offensive weapons, one that can blast adversary satellites with electromagnetic radiation.
“The lowest-cost place to put AI will be in space, and that will be true within two years, maybe three at the latest,” SpaceX founder Elon Musk told the World Economic Forum in Davos this past January, as his company was preparing to go public.Later t…