I find that one of the more enjoyable and easy activities to share as an amateur astronomer is watching satellites pass by. While most exercises in amateur astronomy can be slow or take time that ...

Satellites are always falling towards the Earth, but never reaching it - that's how they stay in orbit. They are meant to stay there, and usually there is no plan to bring them back to Earth.

NASA Launches Satellite Command Game for Kids. News. By Leslie Meredith published 12 October 2011 When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

The satellite sounds pretty simple, but remember: It was built by teenagers. All in all, the Minotaur 1 rocket will carry a record 28 CubeSats, including the one from Jefferson High.

In 2012, a U.S. spy agency gave NASA two spy satellites that were more powerful than the Hubble telescope. NASA was a bit dumbfounded. The U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (the agency charged ...

"Once in a lifetime chance for children to give a Galileo satellite their name." This was the title of a Thursday press release by the usually-pretty-predictable European Commission press service ...

What the heck happened to Zuma? We know that the super-secret satellite was built by Northrop Grumman for an agency of the United States Government, and that SpaceX launched it on Sunday, January ...

Satellites are always falling towards the Earth, but never reaching it - that’s how they stay in orbit. They are meant to stay there, and usually there is no plan to bring them back to Earth.