Satellite technology is a fascinating field that makes use of some very clever engineering to overcome the challenges of ...

The system, called Autosat, can task, calibrate its signals and send and receive information on its own without the need for ...

The Naval Research Laboratory has demonstrated a fully autonomous satellite, Autosat, in a lab environment and hopes to eventually test the system in orbit. (Jumpeestudio/Getty Images) ...

The Naval Research Laboratory has demonstrated a fully autonomous satellite, Autosat ... “We want to get funding to actually build a system along these lines and launch it.” ...

China has announced plans to build a giant solar power space station, which will be lifted into orbit piece by piece using ...

And they must make difficult trades between payload capacity and on-board propellant. There has been less innovation in larger satellites. One of the industry-leading large satellite buses—a ...

The company said, “This milestone marks a key step in building a revolutionary satellite constellation capable of enabling secure machine-to-machine transactions via space. If successful ...