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The Nation’s first reusable and returnable satellite, Shijian-19,was successfully retrieved and returned to Earth after ...

The 5-year-old U.S. Space Force is moving quickly to confront what is becoming its priority challenge: the threat of ...

The ISS had to avoid even more space junk for the second time in a week, highlighting growing concerns about crowding Earth's ...

For the second time in a week, the International Space Station has had to adjust its orbit in order to steer clear of a piece ...

The five IoT nanosatellites were deployed into a 400-mile-high (643 kilometers) orbit about 66 minutes after liftoff as ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — The weather was looking good as SpaceX launched more than 20 Starlink satellites on Tuesday night.

While SpaceX has revolutionized space launches, vastly decreasing their cost and increasing their reliability, the company ...

Learn more about the capabilities NASA commercial partners are developing to enable low Earth orbit space missions and ...

The BlueWalker 3 satellite was fully deployed, making it the "largest-ever commercial communications array in low Earth orbit ...

There's nothing innate about the Earth or its atmosphere that marks the boundaries of low Earth orbit. This is a distinction ...