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SpaceX’s Starship V3—still a work in progress—mostly successful on first flight | SpaceX has more to prove before flying Starship all the way to low-Earth orbit.

The US military recently held a classified exercise to deal with a nuke in space | US officials have said a nuclear detonation would render portions of low-Earth orbit useless for up to a year.

NASA’s Artemis II: Humans Just Left Earth Orbit for the First Time Since 1972

NASA: Artemis II Crew Now First Humans Beyond Earth Orbit Since 1972

NASA’s Artemis II Mission Leaves Earth Orbit for Flight around Moon

The largest-ever satellite of its kind just unfurled its wings in low-Earth orbit

Earth orbit is getting crowded. Can this map of 1 million routes around our planet help prevent satellite collisions?

Groundhog Day launch sends SpaceX Starlink satellites into Earth orbit from California (video)

Low-Earth orbit is just 2.8 days from disaster

New study: Everyone but China has pretty much stopped littering in low-Earth orbit | Since 2000, China has accumulated more dead rocket mass in long-lived orbits than the rest of the world combined. Worryingly, it's only accelerating since the past 2 years

SpaceX launches Starlink satellites, lands Falcon rocket for 500th time (video)

Russia launches mice, microbes and more on monthlong mission to Earth orbit (video)

NASA's new sun-studying mission 'PUNCH' attains its final form in Earth orbit

Is Earth Orbit Doomed to be a Billionaire’s Playground?

GPS Jamming Extends to Low-Earth Orbit as Pentagon Races to Bolster Constellation

An aircraft carrier in space? US Space Force wants 'orbital carrier' to easily deploy spacecraft in Earth orbit

SpaceX's Fram2 mission captures 1st human X-ray in Earth orbit

Space pirates already have their sights set on the 'high seas' of Earth orbit. Can we stop them?

Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander leaves Earth orbit to head for the moon

Private Blue Ghost moon lander sees gorgeous lunar eclipse from Earth orbit (video)