Satellites are perhaps the most wondrous piece of technology mankind has invented. The idea of creating an artificial device and launching it into space to orbit our planet is simply amazing. It is ...

Viasat reported earnings last week. It's still losing money -- but that's almost beside the point. Viasat just launched a single 1 Tbps satellite for 15 times the cost SpaceX will pay to launch 60.

Today’s satellites are cheaper, but hardly cheap. Brad King, the CEO of a propulsion supplier Orbion Space Technology, joins us to explain why after a writing a column for our Oct. 13 print issue. Joe ...

A satellite that has gone missing in space cost taxpayers $32 million, $3m more than originally planned, because of delays. The extra cost was to staff a mission control that will now never be used to ...

The third time was the charm. Twice in the past week, United Launch Alliance (ULA) had to "scrub" attempts to launch a new ViaSat-3 F2 communications satellite for customer Viasat (NASDAQ: VSAT), both ...