Regular followers of space news will know that when satellites or space probes reach the end of their life, they either are de-orbited in a fiery re-entry, or they stay lifeless in orbit, often in a ...

Aviation's climate impact is partly due to contrails—condensation that a plane streaks across the sky when it flies through ...

Most airplane contrails go unseen from space, yet they may drive much of aviation’s climate impact, according to new MIT ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Fifty years ago, on Oct. 24, 1975, meteorology took a monumental leap forward when GOES-1 (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite), the world’s first geostationary ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Government and industry analysts have identified the refueling of satellites in geostationary orbit as one of the most practical and immediately valuable applications of on-orbit ...

Study using radio telescope data finds most geostationary satellites emit little unintended radio interference in frequencies used for astronomy ...

Images from geostationary satellites alone aren’t enough to help planes avoid contrail-prone regions, MIT researchers report.

South Korea plans to retire Cheollian-1, the country's first geostationary multifunctional satellite, next year after 16 ...

The satellite "has a history of unusual maneuvering near other satellites in geostationary orbit, which has also generated suspicions regarding its mission." When you purchase through links on our ...

Radio astronomy has a pollution problem. Satellites thousands of kilometers overhead, designed to broadcast communications or ...