As of May 2025, there are around 11,700 active satellites in orbit around Earth, ranging from military spy satellites and scientific probes to rapidly growing private satellite networks.

Despite owning more than half of the satellites currently in low Earth orbit, SpaceX is complaining about AST SpaceMobile’s ...

"We believe that continuing such activities will further expand our horizon in the field of planetary science." ...

The issue concerns sunlight reflecting off the satellites’ surfaces. SpaceX has attempted to reduce the brightness of the ...

Along with launching two NASA probes, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried five other satellites into orbit with goals ranging ...

The payload Russia's military chose to launch on the Angara A5 is unusual. The rocket deployed its primary passenger, Kosmos ...

In 2023, Arkysis secured a $1.6 million deal from the U.S. Space Force to test satellite assembly in orbit using the Port demo module — a basic building block of a scalable orbiting garage and ...

Looking for something to do this weekend? Arizonans could catch the first Starlink satellite launch in more than a week from ...

Of the roughly 10,000 active objects in low-Earth orbit -- around 1,200 miles from the Earth's surface or closer -- more than 7,750 belong to Starlink, according to data collected by Jonathan ...

But most satellites operate in a zone called "low Earth orbit," between 200 and 2,000 kilometers up, and can take hundreds to thousands of years to fall.

The biggest contributor to this trend is SpaceX's Starlink constellation, which currently has around 7,500 active satellites in orbit — more than 60% of the total number of operational orbiting ...