Russian Express AM-5 comsat suffers from thermal control problem akin to its sister satellite (Corrected)

SES has made an agreed bid of US$3.1 billion in cash for rival satellite operator Intelsat. The deal, expected to Read more

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Middle Eastern satellite operator Yahsat’s subsidiary Thuraya has lost the communications payload on one of its satellites. The Thuraya-3 communications Read more

Keraunothnetophobia, the fear of falling artificial satellites and other space objects, is not to be confused with Keraunophobia, the fear Read more

Lots of military space orders - mostly small ones -  were announced during April 2024. Many were revealed at one Read more

The US Navy has used its Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) interceptor in action for the first time. SM-3s were used to Read more

The cost of NASA’s Mars Sample Return project has doubled from a projected US$5.3 billion to US$11 billion, prompting many Read more