About the GOES-16 satellite - The GOES-16, also known as GOES-R before it reached its geostationary orbit, is operated by NOAA and is focused on the Americas. With the use of sophisticated imagers ...

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The satellite service is meant to provide high-speed internet access in remote and underserved areas, says CNBC. SpaceX hopes to expand its megaconstellation to as many as 42,000 satellites. China is ...

This fireball streaking across the sky wasn’t a meteor shower but a space junk making a dazzling re-entry.

The GaoJing 1-02 imaging satellite burned up over the U.S. in a mesmerizing 'fireball' that some skywatchers mistook for a meteor shower. A Chinese satellite has dramatically disintegrated over ...

The satellite was one of China's first-ever commercial Earth imaging satellites. RIP, SuperView 1-02. A brilliant fireball lit up the night sky over some southern states in the United States this ...

Experts say that this was the re-entry and disintegration of a defunct Chinese commercial imaging satellite — GaoJing 1-02 (Superview 1-02), operated by Beijing-based SpaceView. According to ...

Rocket Lab launched a private Earth-observing radar satellite to orbit today (Dec. 21) on the company's final mission of a busy 2024. An Electron rocket lifted off from Rocket Lab's New Zealand ...

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The story so far: On December 13, Ajai Chowdhry, chairman of the Mission Governing Board of the nascent National Quantum Mission, said India plans to launch a quantum satellite in “2-3 years for ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A Japanese space startup said its second attempt to launch a rocket carrying satellites into orbit had been ...

Join our newsletter to get the latest military space news every Tuesday by veteran defense journalist Sandra Erwin. WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force and Lockheed Martin plan to conduct its ...