Barely launched, the Spanish military satellite SpainSat NG-2 was hit during its transit to geostationary orbit. This ...

Elon Musk spent the past decade wiring the planet with commercial broadband satellites. Now his rockets are quietly lofting a ...

Finnish vendor ICEYE and Wojskowe Zakłady Łączności No 1, an offshoot of Poland’s state-run defense group PGZ, are developing a new satellite constellation for the Polish military. (ICEYE) WARSAW, ...

The SpainSat NG-II military communications satellite suffered debris damage while transiting to its final orbital position, with an assessment underway.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -France and the United States are planning a second joint mission of coordinated satellite maneuvers in orbit, part of a growing push to sharpen allied spying capabilities as ...

A state-of-the-art new communication satellite for the Spanish military has collided with a "space particle" in orbit and may ...

WASHINGTON — As the space industry watches what analysts describe as a “gold rush” around the Pentagon’s projected $175 billion Golden Dome missile defense program, Canadian satellite operator Telesat ...

Spain’s space mission suffers a setback after a military satellite was hit by a space particle 50,000 km above Earth.

The first artificial satellite put into orbit was Sputnik I. It was launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, more than 10 years before the U.S. put a man on the moon. It was only about the size of a ...

Japanese company Synspective has a goal of operating as many as 30 SAR satellites by the end of the decade. Credit: Synspective WASHINGTON — Japanese radar-imaging company Synspective has been ...

The Skynet 6A satellite is undergoing component testing at the National Satellite Test Facility. Credit: STFC RAL Space LONDON—The UK Defense Ministry is looking to set up a single organization to ...