SpaceX is seeking FCC approval for a satellite constellation of unprecedented scale intended to function as an orbital data center.

Not just thousands. In an FCC filing, the company mentions deploying up to a staggering 'one million satellites' in orbits ...

Ground-based observations suggest the former geostationary inspector satellite suffered a fragmentation event months after ...

After spying on the electronic signals of adversaries for decades, the NRO's enigmatic Jumpseat spy satellite has emerged from the darkness.

The U.S. government revealed details of a secret satellite program it used to spy on the Soviet Union at the height of ...

Launched between 1971 and 1987 primarily to collect intelligence data on foreign weapon testing, the last satellites in the JUMPSEAT family were withdrawn ...

The NRO describes JUMPSEAT as the United States’ first-generation, highly elliptical orbit (HEO) signals-collection satellite ...

New study warns rising orbital congestion increases Satellite Collision risk as Earth’s crowded low orbit grows more fragile ...

The National Reconnaissance Office just revealed the existence of its "JUMPSEAT" line of spy satellites, eight of which ...

The name Jumpseat was first revealed in a 1986 book by the investigative journalist Seymour Hersh on the Soviet Union’s 1983 ...

The US National Reconaissance Office has declassified a signals-collection satellite programme that operated between 1971 and ...

Low-Earth orbit is more crowded—and fragile—than it looks. Satellites constantly weave past each other, burning fuel and ...