Some of these incidents have more publicly-facing than others, such as Russia's anti-satellite (ASAT) test in 2022, which created a cloud of supersonic debris in low-Earth orbit.

Preparing for a Criminal Crisis in Orbit" (Wiley, 2025). Taylor is director of the CSCPG. As they write in their newly published book, "we think the phenomenon will occur," and they offer ...

Fram2, the first human spaceflight to orbit the poles, is scheduled to launch no earlier than 11:20 p.m. EDT on March 31. The SpaceX mission will be crewed by four explorers of the Arctic regions ...

This next flight has a little less national attention, although it will be the first time humans have flown a polar orbit around the Earth. SpaceX posted Saturday on X that the Crew Dragon ...

Space Force should shift its focus from managing spacecraft in support of defense infrastructure on the ground, to growing its ability to keep pace with the on-orbit weaponry being developed by ...

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Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams splashed down near the coast of Florida aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule at 5:57 p.m. ET on Tuesday (March 18). NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos ...

Earth has a nearly circular orbit, but some planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets, have very elliptical orbits ... data set," Entrican said. The eccentricity split coincides with ...