To leverage LEO satellites for advancing connectivity, industry, civil society, and policymakers at all levels must work ...

After Operation Sindoor, India has decided to speed up its space-based defence efforts. The government is now planning to launch 52 dedicated satellites to support the armed forces. These satellites ...

Starlink satellites have been developed by SpaceX to provide internet to remote locations. Here we explore the controversial ...

Every hurricane season, we become familiar with the counterclockwise-spinning spiral as the near-universal symbol for the storms. But that wouldn’t have been possible without weather satellites to ...

As of May 2023, the Union of Concerned Scientists listed 7,560 active satellites in orbit around Earth, while Space Watch Global put the number at over 10,000. In either case, this is a lot of ...

Given the impending rise in satellite numbers, researchers are hard at work trying to figure out what problems they may cause. A major issue associated with megaconstellations is space junk, including ...