Satellite

A satellite telephone, satellite phone or satphone is a type of mobile phone that connects to other phones or the telephone network by radio link through satellites orbiting the Earth instead of terrestrial cell sites, as cellphones do.

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Dubai’s Desert Deluge: Satellite Snaps Unusual Flooding Fiasco

China launches satellite to support future moon missions (video)

Satellite snaps eerily circular holes in the clouds above Florida. What caused them?

Roraima’s Inferno: A Satellite’s Eye View of the Amazon Rainforest in Flames

Satellite launched to track down leaks of potent greenhouse gas

A Fiery Farewell to ESA’s Pioneering ERS-2 Satellite

Astroscale’s Satellite is Now Chasing Down a Real Piece of Space Debris

A satellite will make a fiery fall back to Earth, European Space Agency says

Satellite weighing as much as adult rhino to crash through Earth's atmosphere today

Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket put a satellite in the wrong orbit in December. Now we know why.

Satellite beamed power from space to Earth for the first time ever

Space rescue! Watch a satellite being saved from a wire snag (video)

A new, rigorous assessment of OpenET accuracy for supporting satellite-based water management

Congratulations to Ireland on the successful launch of their first Satellite.

Watch Live: Historic Launch of EIRSAT-1, Ireland’s First Satellite

Salt and Spectacle: Satellite Reveals East Africa’s Pink Lakes

The Final Orbit: Unraveling a Satellite’s Death Spiral

N.Korea: Satellite successfully inserted into orbit

A satellite's very tiny camera took a very blurry picture of Earth — and it's perfect

SpaceX will launch Ireland's 1st-ever satellite this month