Long Island amateur astronomer Steven Bellavia imaged Jupiter's Great Red Spot, its satellite Europa and its shadow on Sept. 14th from the Custer Institute at Southold, NY.

Hughes' Jupiter 3 couldn't be more different. It's a single nine-ton satellite the size of a bus -- 27 feet long and 127 feet wide once its solar panels are deployed.

Hughes has provided satellite-based internet access for years with its Jupiter 1 and Jupiter 2 satellites, each in geostationary orbit 22,236 miles above Earth's equator.But their data transfer ...

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launches the Jupiter 3 communications satellite on July 28, 2023. (Image credit: SpaceX) The Falcon Heavy is the second-most powerful rocket flying today, after NASA's ...

An image of the Jupiter 3 satellite under construction in a cleanroom of Westminster-based Maxar Technologies. The massive satellite was build to provide internet capacity for Douglas County-based ...

Largest commercial communications satellite ever built will more than double the capacity of the Hughes JUPITER fleetGERMANTOWN, Md., July 29, 202 ...

Jupiter will be some 367 million miles from Earth on Monday, ... The Galilean satellites are among Jupiter's 53 named moons, though scientists have found 79 in total.

Largest commercial communications satellite ever launched in final test stage before service GERMANTOWN, Md., Nov. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hughes Network Systems, an EchoStar (Nasdaq: SATS ...

Kaul said the 120 spot beam Jupiter-2 satellite already hosts more than 200,000 of the company’s 1,085,000 subscribers. The company added 41,000 net subscribers for the three months ended June 30.

The probe's first encounter will be with the asteroid Eurybates in August 2027. According to NASA, Lucy will conduct four ...

The gas giant Jupiter is a whopping 452 million miles away from Earth and more than 11 times bigger, but is similar in at least one way. Some of the geophysical forces behind the enormous planet ...