16 Iran objects are currently in orbit, out of 38 ever cataloged. 20 have reentered. How many Iran satellites are active? 14 Iran objects carry an active status in the catalog, out of 12 payloads.

Space Systems Command has issued the first operational contracts under the Commercial Augmentation Space Reserve (CASR), the Space Force’s version of the Civil Reserve Air Fleet. Six space domain ...

If you’ve ever connected to Wi-Fi on a transpacific flight and wondered how exactly you’re streaming video at 35,000 feet over the middle of the Pacific Ocean, there’s a decent chance the answer is a ...

A Falcon 9 launch costs $74 million at SpaceX’s 2026 list price, for up to 5.5 metric tons to geostationary transfer orbit. That is up from $70 million in 2025 and $67 million in 2022. Government ...

No qualifying SpaceX headlines cleared our filters in the last 36 hours. The constellation stands at 13042 launched, 11166 in orbit, 11151 working; the safety and constellation sections below carry ...

This list is about the networks still under construction, the next phase of the mega-constellation race. For the finished ones, ranked purely by size, see the 10 largest satellite constellations. Here ...

WESTPAC is a 24 kg brass sphere, 24.5 cm across, covered in 60 corner cube retroreflectors. It has no power system, no motor, and no transmitter. Its job is to bounce laser pulses back to ground ...

Jeff Bezos owns most of Blue Origin, which is private and cannot be bought on any exchange. Rocket Lab is a public company that trades on the Nasdaq as RKLB, and its largest holders include founder ...

Space-Track issued a new Tracking and Impact Prediction (TIP) message for AUREOLE 2 at 14:17 UTC on 24 October. It narrows the uncertainty window from 1,020 hours to 840 hours. The nominal decay epoch ...

The only item in this cycle’s feed is Space.com’s This Week In Space podcast, Episode 233, “The Artemis Generation,” published October 24. No new SpaceX or Starlink anomaly, launch, regulatory or ...

How many are up there? How fast do they go? Can you see them? Here are straight answers to the ten questions people actually type into a search bar about satellites, with the real numbers and a way to ...

SpaceX ignited all 33 Raptor 3 engines on Starship V3 in a landmark static fire at Starbase, clearing the final major technical hurdle before Flight 12. The achievement comes as SpaceX simultaneously ...