Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday he will share evidence with the United States showing Russia is assisting Iran in targeting U.S. bases in the Middle East via satellite surveillance. “Since the beginning of July, we have recorded active Russian satellite surveillance of the Gulf states and U.S. military facilities located there,” Zelenskyy said … Read more
Caracas — The race to find survivors continued Tuesday six days after powerful twin earthquakes devastated northern Venezuela. A NASA assessment based on satellite imagery suggests almost 60,000 buildings may have been damaged or destroyed, and teams from all over the world have joined increasingly frantic efforts to find anyone still trapped alive under the rubble. … Read more
More than 60 drones targeted Moscow overnight, the city’s mayor said Tuesday, marking another major aerial attack on the Russian capital as Ukraine intensifies its long-range weapons campaign. Limited time: Save 25% on NBC News subscription Get exclusive reporting, live Q&As and ad-free reading. A satellite communications center was hit, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said … Read more
The earthquakes are the most powerful to hit Venezuela in over a century. Hard-hit was the state of La Guaira, which is along the country’s northern coast and north of the capital of Caracas. The images from Planet Labs PBC and Vantor show crumbled buildings and destroyed roads in the coastal cities of Catia La … Read more
A triple-core SpaceX Falcon Heavy, the company’s most powerful operational rocket, blasted off from Florida Wednesday, boosting a ViaSat internet satellite into space, the company’s third in a globe-spanning fleet of high-speed broadband relay stations. Along with putting the ViaSat-3 satellite into its planned preliminary orbit, the rocket’s two side boosters, heralded by competing sonic … Read more
Blue Origin launched the company’s third New Glenn rocket Sunday, re-flying and successfully recovering a previously used first stage. But the rocket’s payload, a direct-to-cellphone communications satellite, ended up in the wrong orbit, the company said. “We have confirmed payload separation,” Blue Origin, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, posted on X. “AST SpaceMobile has … Read more
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: Sensitive U.S. military positions in the Middle East may have been exposed through commercial satellite imagery ahead of an Iranian strike that wounded American troops, House Select Committee on China Chairman John Moolenaar warned in a new letter raising national security concerns. In the … Read more
DOHA, Qatar — Russia took satellite images of a U.S. air base in Saudi Arabia three times in the days before Iran attacked the site and wounded American troops, according to a summary of Ukrainian intelligence shared with NBC News by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. In an interview in the Gulf nation of Qatar on Saturday, … Read more
Bridges blown up. Homes destroyed. More than 1 million people displaced. And plans for Israeli control over a vast swath of territory for an indefinite period. Fears over Israel’s vow to model its invasion of southern Lebanon after its yearslong, deadly military offensive in Gaza are being increasingly voiced as satellite imagery shows the intensifying … Read more
In a marked shift, commercial satellite companies that provide open-source data used widely by many, including journalists and researchers, have restricted access to images showing Iran and the wider Middle East, including areas where there are U.S. military sites that have been targeted by Iran’s retaliatory fire. Planet Labs, which regularly provides imagery used by … Read more