Developers of wildfire-detection satellites are moving beyond raw data delivery, adding tools that show firefighters and ...

More objects are being launched into space than ever, and most are headed for low Earth orbit. This region of space has become increasingly crowded with launches from SpaceX and others that have ...

There are about 15,000 satellites orbiting Earth. Most of them, like the International Space Station and the Hubble Telescope, reside in low Earth orbit, or LEO, which tops out at about 1,200 miles (2 ...

Low Earth orbit now holds thousands of satellites, and the count keeps rising. That growth has made space feel roomy in ...

November 03, 2025 - Recent successes in low-orbit manufacturing ("LOM") — the process of building or growing products aboard satellites or space stations orbiting Earth — corroborate its ...

Sept. 25 (UPI) --SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket with a payload of more than two dozen Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit early Thursday from Central Florida. The rocket launched at 4:36 a.m.

What just happened? There have been plenty of reports in recent times about near-misses of low Earth orbit satellites – most of them belonging to Starlink. In 2026, Elon Musk's company hopes to reduce ...

Dec. 7 (UPI) --SpaceX launched another 28 satellites into low-Earth orbit Sunday, the company announced. In a news release, SpaceX said the satellites were launched by a Falcon 9 rocket from Space ...

Sven Bilén founder and co-owner of Victoria Defense, which seeks to commercialize VLEO and other space technologies. He receives funding from DARPA and NASA related to VLEO technologies. Which is why ...