Veronica Magan

Astronomers from Harvard have confirmed that the North Korean satellite launched into space last week is tumbling in orbit and that no transmission has been received from it, signals that the spacecraft is almost certainly inactive.

The newest LandSat satellite, LandSat 8, has been scheduled for a February 2013 launch.

Arianespace has released a new mobile application that allows users to follow the company’s activities from their tables and smartphones.

The competition promises $30 million to the first privately funded team that can successfully land and communicate with an unmanned vehicle on the moon.

Two days after its first successful launch North Korea has vowed to send more satellites into space.

Intense solar storms are expected next year, which means that the number of sunspots will increase massively, causing changes in our planet’s ionosphere.

DigitalGlobe has published its 20 best satellite images of 2012 and it is now looking for public feedback to select the top one.

Less than 24 hours after North Korea’s successful satellite launch, reports suggest that the spacecraft could be “tumbling out of control.”

Canada’s Supreme Court has overturned decision, which favored the CRTC request to establish a value-for-signal system.

COM DEV Ltd. has given out the Platinum Award to Haas Precision Corp., one of its 180 product suppliers.

United Launch Alliance successfully launched U.S. Air Force’s X-37B, an unmanned Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), on its classified mission.

After past failures and international pressure, North Korea has launched its first satellite into space.

Google has added the latest imagery NASA released of Earth at night to its popular Google Maps.

The Indian Space Research Organization announced its plans to launch its heavy-lift Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV).

Five CubeSats have been successfully launched from the International Space Station (ISS), making it the first time the station performs such task.

Arianespace has started preparations for its first heavy-lift flight of 2013 carrying the Amazonas 3 and Azerspace/Africasat-1 telecommunications satellites.

Russian Proton heavy-lift rocket suffered a failure during launch, delivering Gazprom Space System’s telecommunication satellite into a lower orbit than desired.

Iran’s oil tankers are sending incorrect satellite signals to global tracking systems to conceal their voyages to Syria.

North Korea announced it plans to delay the launch of a long-range rocket to orbit a satellite originally scheduled to take off between December 10 and 22, 2012.

NASA released high-quality images of the Plosky Tolbachik volcano on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula that suddenly erupted after being dormant for 36 years.

The new MapBox Satellite allows users to customize public domain satellite imagery through its platform.

Boeing selected Saft to provide Li-ion battery packs for four new 702SP communication satellites.

NASA released new images of Earth’s night scene from the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite.

The Pentagon is opening up to other options besides United Launch Alliance for launchers for its military satellites.

The Space Foundation, a global nonprofit organization focused on space awareness and education, released a report this week about U.S. leadership in space.

A team of researchers from Ohio State University has suggested satellites as a new way to detect nuclear tests.

The U.S. Air Force has awarded two contracts to SpaceX in the latest move to foster competition in the country’s launch market.

The European Space Agency's third satellite has sent its first test navigation signals back to Earth and broadcasted signals across all three Galileo bands.

Raytheon is partnering with the U.S. military to provide persistent surveillance imagery on-demand to low-echelon warfighters in the field.

ManSat's CEO Chris Stott has been invited to join the advisory board of the new exhibition at the National Electronics Museum in Maryland titled "Satellites Transform our Lives."