When NASA launched Voyager in 1977, the spacecraft was built to work for about four years. Nearly five decades later it is ...

Watch China's Tiangong space station cross the moon in stunning amateur footage Before the arrival of a new module, however, the first new addition to Tiangong is expected to be Xuntian, a bus-sized ...

On June 5, 2026, Nasa ordered five astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) to shelter in a docked spacecraft and prepare to abandon ship. The reason was a longstanding, but worsening, ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force is launching a new competition for mobile satellite-control antennas, formally restarting a program it canceled after abandoning a $1.7 billion contract with ...

Vast is working with a network of partners for microgravity research and development on its future space stations. Credit: Vast WASHINGTON — Commercial space station company Vast announced June 24 the ...

A troubling gap A just-issued U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report has focused on issues related to NASA's plan to bring down the International Space Station (ISS) and transition from ...

A growing number of constellations is generating demand for higher-throughput ground antennas, Norwood says. Credit: Norwood Space Norwood Space has unveiled a new ground-based parabolic antenna, ...

The International Space Station offers a unique environment in microgravity for astronauts to study an official FIFA World Cup soccer ball. Astronauts recently conducted experiments aimed to improve ...

Abstract: This paper proposes a new architecture for the low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite ground station aided by movable antenna (MA) array. Unlike conventional fixed-position antenna (FPA), the MA ...

Abstract: High-scanning-rate full-space scanning leaky wave antennas (LWAs), capable of sweeping beams seamlessly across the entire space in a narrow frequency band, have gained increasing favor for ...