The U.S. Air Force began deploying the Global Positioning System (GPS) nearly 50 years ago, critical infrastructure to both ...

Modern smartphones come equipped with GPS receivers that measure radio signals beamed from satellites orbiting roughly 1,200 ...

The needed precision is much greater than the atomic clocks used for GPS satellites. However, Chinese scientists believe they ...

There's nothing innate about the Earth or its atmosphere that marks the boundaries of low Earth orbit. This is a distinction ...

The PreMevE-MEO was able to observe electrons by utilizing 12 medium-Earth-orbit GPS satellites, and one Los Alamos ...

The company plans to leverage its expertise in manufacturing and operating low-cost, high-orbit satellites. Specifically, ...

Defence has assessed that a single orbit GEO-based satellite communications system would not meet strategic priorities.

Chinese scientists have developed a new Death Star-like microwave weapon that combines multiple beams for precise targeting.

In a cutting-edge milestone for orbital innovation, the U.S. military's secretive X-37B space plane has begun advanced aerobraking maneuvers to shift its orbit. Launched on its seventh mission ...

Astranis secured an $8 million contract for the initial design phase of the Resilient Global Positioning System (R-GPS) program ...

It sounds like something out of a science-fiction movie. For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is more than just a ...

Still, they are often completely expended when blasting a satellite into a higher orbit, raising costs. Starlink satellites being deployed in LEO. Credit: SpaceX Some satellites, like GPS nodes ...