On February 25, 1982, the Western Union company launched a communication satellite called Westar 4. Western Union was the first American telecommunications company to have a fleet of its own ...

In the prologue, excerpted here, Oney explores a pivotal night when NPR narrowly avoided financial implosion, thanks to a ...

Astrum Mobile selects SWISSto12's GEO SmallSat HummingSat for NEASTAR-1, Asia Pacific’s first Satellite-to-Device (S2D) platform for 5G NTN services.

Vietnam's LOTUSat-1 satellite has been completed, with the ground system at Hoa Lac Hi-Tech Park in Hanoi fully operational and ready to receive data once the satellite enters orbit. Associate ...

A s satellite technology gains traction on the African continent, Botswana successfully launched its first satellite, ...

While terrifying, there's an overlooked NASA spacewalk which looks equally terrifying to untrained Earth-dwellers. In 1984, ...

A record-setting test of quantum communication used a microsatellite to connect ground stations in China and South Africa, ...

Researchers have broken a distance record in quantum communication by sending a secret encryption key nearly 13,000 km from ...

Scientists have successfully established the world's longest intercontinental ultra-secure quantum satellite link, spanning 12,900 km. Using the Chinese quantum microsatellite Jinan-1, launched into ...