A team that includes aerospace engineers, historians and writers have proposed retrieving the 67-year-old Vanguard 1 ...

Melting moon dust, found at the bottom of astronaut's shoes, would save on costly, heavy transport of solar cells in space.

A 2014 satellite image captured a rare glimpse of a massive, eerily circular ring of clouds that formed slap-bang in the ...

THE past year has witnessed increasing interest in solar-powered ... of an orbit made it possible for a communications satellite launched from a non-equatorial site to attain a geostationary ...

IMAGINE your home was powered by the dirt in your back garden. Well, that could be a reality for future lunar astronauts.

When the AMSAT-OSCAR 7 (AO-7) amateur radio satellite was launched in 1974, its expected lifespan was about five years. The plucky little satellite made it to 1981 when a battery failure caused it ...

Solar power satellite (SPS) advocates have been dreaming of using space resources to build massive constructions for decades. In-space resource utilization (ISRU) advocates would love to oblige ...

BEIJING -- A geostationary satellite network observation (GSNO) system has been developed to precisely monitor changes in surface solar radiation by introducing satellite remote sensing technology ...

The wings support two solar cells, while the hull of the satellite holds a dead-bugged 74HC240 octal buffer/line-driver chip and all the other pumm-enabling components. A one farad supercap ...