Amazon's first batch of internet satellites rocketed into orbit Monday, the latest entry in the mega constellation market ...

Elon Musk's SpaceX already has launched more than 8,000 Starlinks since 2019. The company marked its 250th Starlink launch ...

We've deployed so many satellites into space over the last few decades that we now have a massive orbital junk problem. The ...

NASA researchers got a rare chance to study Uranus' atmosphere and rings this month, when the ice giant passed between Earth ...

During the three to five-day mission, the autonomous Dragon will repeatedly travel from the North Pole to the South Pole at an altitude ... photograph Earth's polar regions from low-Earth orbit ...

sending four spaceflight rookies into a north-to-south trajectory in low-Earth orbit at an altitude of about 271 miles (437 kilometers). From their novel perspective, the "Framonauts" were able to ...

Upper air measurements are taken by a group of sensors called a radiosonde. A radiosonde is a very small instrument package ...

So, it is no surprise that for many pilots knowing that magic altitude that ... and parachutes back to Earth. This data is collectively called a radiosonde observation (RAOB) and, when plotted ...

If successful, Wang and the three others joining him for a 3-5 day trip orbiting Earth could make history as the first crew to view and film the Earth’s polar regions from low-Earth orbit.