DeepSeek’s latest training research arrives at a moment when the cost of building frontier models is starting to choke off ...

Space telescopes are increasingly being designed for serviceability, addressing challenges like distance and vulnerability to damage. Researchers are developing innovative solutions, such as extending ...

The fate of telescopes in space is looking better now that they are being designed to be serviceable. Researchers developed a servicing plan that can be applied to future space observatories based on ...

Earth's orbit is an ellipse, not a perfect circle. Earth's distance from the Sun varies by about 3 million miles throughout the year. Earth's orbit's semimajor axis is approximately 93 million miles.

The Boeing-made Intelsat 33e satellite broke apart in orbit over the weekend. But company representatives don't yet know why. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Seated, left to right, are D-Orbit CEO Luca Rossettini and ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher signing an agreement for Europe's first life extension mission for a satellite in geostationary orbit.

Abstract: We consider direct policy optimization for the linear-quadratic Gaussian (LQG) setting. Over the past few years, it has been recognized that the landscape of dynamic output-feedback ...

Starfish Space’s ambitious first mission to demonstrate on-orbit rendezvous and docking tech has officially come to a close, with the startup managing to complete some of the objectives thanks to a ...

Space is getting crowded, with junk. Essential satellites delivering navigation, weather forecasts, the Internet and other services face this threat daily. Old rockets, decaying spacecraft and human ...

An Orbit Fab fuel shuttle docks with an on-orbit satellite equipped with the company's RAFTI refueling port. (Orbit Fab) Orbit Fab, a company developing in-space depots to refuel satellites, said this ...