Samantha Harvey’s “Orbital,” the 2024 Booker Prize winner, is not a novel about space exploration as technological triumph, but an ethical meditation on human ambition, fragility and perspective.

SpaceX closed 2025 with 165 Falcon 9 flights, a record. Credit: SpaceX CAPE CANAVERAL—The number of orbital launch attempts worldwide last year surpassed the record 2024 flight rate by 25%, with ...

Starlink, Elon Musk’s satellite internet service, plans to lower around 4,400 satellites from approximately 550 km to 480 km in 2026, aiming to improve space safety and reduce collision risks. The ...

Elon Musk’s Starlink is set to lower about 4,400 of its satellites from roughly 550 km to 480 km in 2026 as part of a major reconfiguration aimed at improving space safety. This disclosure was made by ...

Earlier this week, SpaceX said one of its Starlink satellites experienced an anomaly in space that caused it to lose communications and generate a small amount of debris. The satellite was operating ...

Intellistake has now completed its initial US$500,000 strategic equity investment in Orbit AI. On December 10, 2025 Orbit AI successfully launched its first Orbital Cloud satellite. Intellistake is ...

To hear Silicon Valley tell it, artificial intelligence is outgrowing the planet that gave birth to it. Data centers will account for nearly half of U.S. electricity demand growth between now and 2030 ...

Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti receives funding from NASA and Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA). He teaches space systems engineering and mission design and management at the University ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti, University of Michigan (THE CONVERSATION) The rapid expansion ...

PowerBank plans to initially invest $50,000 in Orbit AI, with an option to invest $1 million for equity of 2%. Subject to the approval of Orbit AI, the amount can be increased to up to $10 million for ...