Forty years ago, I was at Mission Control at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center for the launch of the Challenger. I was working in data communications. My job was to ensure all telemetry links between ...
On Jan. 28, 1986, America witnessed a tragedy: the explosion of Space Shuttle Challenger in the blue skies over Florida. The ...
WASHINGTON — Northwood Space, a California-based maker of phased-array ground stations, announced Jan. 27 it raised $100 million in Series B funding as government and commercial operators look for ...
In late August 2019, scientists working at the European Space Agency received a warning that one of its flagship satellites was about to collide with one of Elon Musk’s recently launched Starlinks.
The Trump administration’s plan to gut the Office of Space Commerce and cancel the government’s first civilian-run space traffic control program is gaining plenty of detractors. Earlier this week, ...
In late December 2025, a startling report revealed that SpaceX’s Starlink satellite constellation had to perform around ...
The keys to the International Space Station just changed hands. Cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos passed control of the orbiting lab over to Takuya Onishi of the Japan ...
Space debris management and control encompasses a spectrum of strategies aimed at mitigating the growing risks posed by non-functional satellites, spent rocket stages and fragmentation debris in Earth ...
Pituffik Space Base in Greenland hosts US Space Force missile radars amid Trump takeover push. NORAD deploys aircraft; branch ...
The observation tower provides views of planes landing and taking off from Dulles Airport, as well as live Air Traffic Control audio.