The Italian Space Agency has picked European company Blue Skies Space to build a fleet of satellites around the moon to map ...

Millions of Satellites: Project West Ford’s needles ... billion 1.8 cm long #53 AWG copper needles in orbit to act as an artificial ionosphere capable of reflecting SHF signals.

Earth has a single natural satellite—our Moon. But tens of thousands of artificial satellites have been sent into orbit. And ...

Chop Shop on Tuesday (April 8) began seeking fans of robotic satellites and interplanetary spacecraft to help them create a ...

64 years ago, a man born in a tiny Russian village to a carpenter and a dairy farmer spent 108 minutes looking down at Earth.

Have you ever stared at the Moon, wondering about the mysteries ... In all, the Luna 10 operated as an artificial satellite of our natural satellite for 56 days, completing 460 lunar orbits ...

The attractive force of gravity also keeps moons and artificial satellites in orbit around a planet. The Moon is a natural satellite. An artificial satellite is a man-made body placed in orbit ...

With data demands soaring and Earth-based infrastructure facing limitations, companies like Lonestar Data Holdings are ...

Following is a transcript of the video. A city in China wants to launch an artificial moon into orbit by 2020 as a way to reduce energy needs by replacing street light with artificial moonlight.

Once operational next year, the satellites will orbit Earth in an intricate dance, creating artificial eclipses that ... mimicking the role of the moon in a natural solar eclipse.