SpaceX spawned a swarm of satellites Wednesday morning—the latest addition to a constellation designed to give space-based broadband escape velocity from its mediocre past. But while the Starlink ...

A new study published in the Journal of Remote Sensing has revealed that current satellite systems underestimate total CO₂ emissions from U.S. thermal power plants by 70% (±12%). The research, led by ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. The discovery that roughly half of all geostationary satellite signals transmit sensitive ...

Thanks to new satellite smartphone features, are dedicated satellite communicators still necessary? The simple answer is “it depends.” Using your smartphone to call for help from the middle of nowhere ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (WPEC) — The newest weather satellite for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration launched at 4:38 pm today. The satellite reached orbit atop an Atlas V rocket from ...

Two weeks after asuccessful launch from Cape Canaveral, NOAA Satellites has confirmed that GOES-T, the newest weather satellite from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has executed ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has just signed a €10.6 ($11.1) billion contract to build the IRIS constellation. It’s the EU’s most ambitious space program in a decade and is designed to compete with ...

Last week, the FCC adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking proposing a new regulatory framework to address the growing convergence of satellite and terrestrial-based networks, titled the “Single ...

When the iPhone 14 launched, one of its key talking points was its satellite connectivity. In case of an emergency, the iPhone 14 series could connect to a low-orbit satellite and send an SOS message, ...