For decades, the military has relied on large, multi-ton satellites for global communications from geostationary orbit (GEO), a prime location 35,000 kilometers above Earth that provides unique ...

HELSINKI — China launched the ChinaSat-9C communications satellite Friday to replace an aging, foreign-built predecessor and boost domestic broadcasting capabilities. A Long March 3B lifted off at ...

This follows the failure of another satellite from the same series that may have been due to a meteoroid impact. Reading time 2 minutes A communications satellite broke apart into smaller fragments in ...

Geostationary Earth orbit is back from the dead. A year or two ago, the regime looked like the next graveyard orbit after an onslaught of low-Earth-orbit communications satellites—especially SpaceX’s ...

A United Launch Alliance Altas V rocket launched the powerful and hefty ViaSat-3 F2 satellite on Thursday night (Nov. 13).

SpaceX launched a mystery satellite to geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) from Florida's Space Coast early Sunday morning (July 13). A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force ...

Oct. 23 (UPI) --SpaceX launched a Spanish communications satellite atop a Falcon 9 rocket Thursday night from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida in a rare expendable mission. The rocket ...

Thales Alenia Space said it has signed a contract with GovSat, a joint venture between the Luxembourg government and satellite operator SES, for the supply of a defense geostationary communications ...

"It was quite shocking to us." Cybersecurity researchers have intercepted vast quantities of private voice calls and text messages, including potentially sensitive communications of government and ...

Satellites beam data down to the Earth all around us, all the time. So you might expect that those space-based radio communications would be encrypted to prevent any snoop with a satellite dish from ...