An emotional rescue for America came via the first U.S. artificial satellite. Explorer 1 was boosted into space by the Army ...

Melting moon dust, found at the bottom of astronaut's shoes, would save on costly, heavy transport of solar cells in space.

Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) ("Rocket Lab" or "the Company"), a global leader in launch services and space systems, ...

When the AMSAT-OSCAR 7 (AO-7) amateur radio satellite was launched in 1974, its expected lifespan was about five years. The ...

Rocket Lab USA Inc. launched a new line of advanced solar arrays designed to power satellites across all orbital environments ...

THE past year has witnessed increasing interest in solar-powered ... of an orbit made it possible for a communications satellite launched from a non-equatorial site to attain a geostationary ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The satellite Vanguard 1, launched on March 17, 1958, became the oldest man-made satellite still orbiting Earth. After 67 years in space, a group of scientists, aerospace engineers ...

Scientists made solar cell panels from Moon dust to power future lunar cities more easily, safely, and cheaply.

Researchers used a synthetic version of moon dust to build working solar panels, which could eventually be created within – ...

The Korea Institute of Energy Research has successfully developed ultra-lightweight flexible perovskite/CIGS tandem solar ...

Solar panels that are 99% Moon dust could be a low-cost solution to powering a future lunar base 1. To survive in the harsh ...

The same dirt that clings to astronauts’ boots may one day keep their lights on. In a study publishing April 3 in the Cell ...