With the September 3rd launch from Cape Canaveral, SpaceX put 60 more Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit (LEO). Including the prototypes, the Starlink satellite constellation currently consists of 713 satellites, but it is expected to contain at least 12,000 of the 500-pound satellites by its completion in 2027. Paperwork has also been filed with…

The Mars 2020 mission recently launched, carrying the rover Perseverance to the red planet. It will be the fifth rover operated by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and if all goes well, it will spend its ten to fourteen-year lifespan searching for signs of past or present life on Mars. But unlike the rovers that…

All of us here at the Planetary Broadcast Network offices are big fans of subatomic research. This past week has really been exciting for us—in fact, things have been developing so quickly, that we’ve put the CERN live feed up on one of the big screens in the newsroom. Two big stories that both came…