Last week, three tiny Australian satellites from Curtin University's Binar Space Program burned up in Earth's atmosphere.

The small satellite survived an impact that was either caused by a micrometeorite or a small piece of space junk.

The space solar power project, announced on Monday (Oct. 21), is a partnership between U.K.-based Space Solar, Reykjavik Energy and Icelandic sustainability initiative Transition Labs. It intends to ...

Large solar arrays in geostationary orbit collect solar ... At best, such a system of very large satellites in geostationary space might come online by the middle of this century.

The payload, a deployable solar array with an integrated antenna called the Lightweight Integrated Solar Array and anTenna, or LISA-T, has initiated deployment of its central boom structure.

In these conditions, the ten-centimetre cube satellite started at an altitude of 420km and survived a full 364 days in orbit. The program's follow-up mission – Binar-2, 3, and 4 – were three equally ...

Scientists in Japan constructed the first satellite made of wood by blending age-old woodworking techniques with rocket science.

Europa Clipper is designed to reach the Jupiter system in April 2030 and spend four years making close flybys of Europa, one of the most promising places in our solar system for the search for life ...

Rather than carry many instruments with a vast array of purposes, these Lilliputian-size satellites typically ... The ...

AST SpaceMobile successfully unfolded its first five production satellites after compacting ... featuring the largest solar array commercially deployed to LEO and matching the size of AST ...

It is designed to address an array of key scientific issues related to the origin and dynamics of solar magnetic fields at a ...