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With Earth's orbit growing more crowded with satellites, a U.S. government agency on Friday said it would begin revising decades-old rules on getting rid...

Many residents in different parts of the United States (US) have mistaken the low-flying satellites launched by Elon Musk's SpaceX as unidentified flying objects (UFOs).

Russian rocket used to launch a scientific satellite into space has broken apart after nine years in orbit - leaving a dozens of pieces of debris

Smart Dragon-1 rocket, which weighs 23 tonnes, successfully delivered three satellites into orbit

WASHINGTON: SpaceX got the green light this week from US authorities to put a constellation of nearly 12,000 satellites into orbit in order to...

BEIJING: The launch of satellites for Pakistan showed close ties between China and Pakistan, and highlights Chinese contribution to the development of the China-Pakistan...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will hoist into orbit the spacecraft known as GRACE-FO to replace a pair of satellites launched in 2002 by NASA.

An imaging satellite and 72 micro-satellites were launched into orbit Friday from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Russia space agency Roscosmos and research...

KOUROU: Europe's Ariane 5 rocket launcher successfully sent two telecoms satellites, one for a US-based communications service provider and one for an Indonesian bank, into space on Saturday.

WASHINGTON: U.S. firm Iridium Communications Inc on Monday said its Satellite Time and Location (STL) system was ready for use as an alterative or companion to the U.S. Air Force's Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites.

MIAMI: A pair of solar eruptions over the weekend have unleashed a severe geomagnetic storm that could disrupt power and communications on Earth, US officials said Tuesday.

WASHINGTON: Four identical satellites which will study the interactions between solar winds and the Earth's magnetic fields blasted off into Space on Thursday to begin a two-year study of the phenomenon, US space agency NASA said.