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 ...

For more than 25 years, humans have lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, conducting research ...

In 2026, Starlink will begin lowering the altitude of its satellite constellation, a technical adjustment that points to a much larger concern. Low Earth orbit is becoming crowded, risky, and ...

Artificial intelligence is colliding with the hard limits of Earth’s power grids and cooling systems, and the next frontier its backers are eyeing is orbit. The pitch is simple: put data centers in ...

A new listing of the 50 most concerning pieces of space debris in low-Earth orbit is dominated by relics more than a quarter-century old, primarily dead rockets left to hurtle through space at the end ...

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 ...