A Long March 2D rocket lifts off from Jiuquan, Oct. 14, 2023, carrying the Yunhai-1 (04) satellite. Credit: Ourspace HELSINKI — China added to its series of Yunhai remote sensing satellites late ...

High above the Sun’s blazing equator lie its mysterious poles, the birthplace of fast solar winds and the heart of its ...

WASHINGTON — Satellite manufacturer K2 Space announced plans to launch a three-spacecraft mission in 2027 on a dedicated SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with each satellite deploying to a different orbital ...

China’s burgeoning space portfolio is prompting U.S. Space Force leaders to issue fresh warnings about Beijing’s ambitions to compete with Washington’s on-orbit enterprise.

Orienspace, a private Chinese rocket maker, successfully launched its Gravity 1 carrier rocket on Saturday morning, marking ...

Serving as China's backbone launch vehicles, the Long March rockets have delivered nearly 1,400 spacecraft into orbits and ...

CCTV says the satellites will carry out "electromagnetic environment detection." China launched a a trio of satellites into orbit over the weekend. A Long March 6A rocket lifted off from the Taiyuan ...

China added a trio of new satellites to its clusters of Yaogan orbital reconnaissance spacecraft last week. A Long March 2D rocket lifted off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China at ...

AURORA, Colorado—The U.S. Space Force may eventually connect missile warning and tracking satellites in low and medium Earth orbits (MEO), uniting constellations being separately developed by the ...

Why didn’t the U.S. and its allies’ spy satellites catch Hamas’s surprise attack on Israel? In part, physics. Satellites in geosynchronous orbit are too far away to catch much detail, and there aren’t ...