satellites

It sounds like a villain’s plan if that villain's insidious end was to supply the whole world with cheap, clean electricity: launch a series of three-mile-wide solar panels that radiate solar energy to the surface. Even the price…

Arrayed across a plateau on an island in the high Norwegian Arctic, the 100 geodesic domes of the Svalbard Satellite Station look like abstract mushrooms sprouting from the snowy landscape.From outside, there seems to be little going on.…

The 100 geodesic domes of the Svalbard Satellite Station are located on a plateau on an island in the high Norwegian Arctic and look like abstract mushrooms sprouting from the snowy landscape.From the outside there seems to be little going…

Elon Musk, Chairman and CEO of Tesla, introduces buyers and journalists to the new "semi" electric truck on November 16, 2017 in Hawthorne, California near Los Angeles.Veronique Dupont | AFP | Getty ImagesSpaceX is working on an antenna…

Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit with a missile under the wing of a modified Boeing 747 aircraft launches July 10, 2019 in Mojave, California, in a major drop test of its high altitude satellite launch system.Mike Blake | ReutersVirgin…