Toronto-based Kepler Communications successfully deployed its first wave of orbital data centre satellites on Sunday morning, ...

The world's first wooden satellite has been launched into space, in a step toward sustainable space exploration. The project by scientists at Kyoto University is intended to be a potential solution to ...

Vodafone has demonstrated the capabilities of a new satellite network by making what it calls the "world's first" satellite video call, albeit with some caveats. The company used partner AST ...

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KYOTO, Japan (WKRC) - The world's first wooden satellite has been launched into space in an effort to understand if wood could someday be a "space-grade" material. Many space agencies have hopes of ...

Two Hyderabad startups are democratising the stars by launching a pay-as-you-go orbital laboratory. This mission features the ...

China is preparing to build the world's first supercomputer in orbit, according to reports. Therefore, Beijing has launched new satellites that are equipped with intelligent computing systems and ...

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The world's first three-satellite constellation on the distant retrograde orbit (DRO) of the Earth-Moon system has been successfully established by Chinese scientists. The development lays a ...

It's hard to know for sure, given how some of these things are secret, but the current count puts the number of satellites in orbit at over 10,000. Only one of them is, at least so far, made of wood: ...