A next-generation Viasat communications satellite launched atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket on April 30 has run into problems deploying its huge mesh antenna, a key element in the relay station's ...

A new Viasat communications satellite launched in April has been crippled by a problem when unfurling its huge mesh antenna. The problem jeopardizes Viasat’s much-needed refresh to its space ...

SMAP is sitting inside a United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket set to blastoff from Space Launch Complex-2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base between 6:20 and 6:23 a.m. Thursday.

SMAP mission controllers deployed the 20-foot (6 meter) mesh reflector antenna fully on Feb. 24, less than one month after the satellite launched from California in late January.

For launch, the flexible mesh antenna, which is edged with a ring of lightweight graphite supports called a perimeter truss, had been tightly folded and stowed into a volume of just 1 foot by 4 ...

Two mesh antennas built by Harris Corp. were successfully unfurled aboard the U.S. Navy’s first Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) communications satellite in March, the Melbourne, Fla.-based ...

The huge antenna for the newly launched Biomass forest-monitoring satellite has been successfully deployed, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced on Wednesday (May 7). The multi-day deployment ...

With LISA, ESA plans to catch gravitational waves from space, using a triangle of spacecraft millions of kilometers ...

The European Space Agency (ESA)'s JUICE spacecraft has run into a problem following its launch, ... Once particular antenna, the 16-meter-long Radar for Icy Moons Exploration (RIME) ...

The huge antenna for the newly launched Biomass forest-monitoring satellite has been successfully deployed, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced on Wednesday (May 7). The multi-day deployment ...