"In 2024, we saw a 17% year-over-year spike in the average number of close approaches in low Earth orbit per satellite." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

A recently issued Executive Order revises how the government implements Space Policy Directive-3, removing the longstanding expectation that basic space situational awareness (SSA) services, including ...

Was it Robert Heinlein, author of Stranger in a Strange Land and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, who said that “everything was theoretically impossible till it was done”? Whoever it was, thinkers and ...

Space Forge has turned a long‑running thought experiment into hardware, generating plasma in low Earth orbit to begin manufacturing semiconductor materials in space. By firing up a compact furnace on ...