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After past failures and international pressure, North Korea has launched its first satellite into space.

Google has added the latest imagery NASA released of Earth at night to its popular Google Maps.

The Indian Space Research Organization announced its plans to launch its heavy-lift Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV).

Five CubeSats have been successfully launched from the International Space Station (ISS), making it the first time the station performs such task.

Arianespace has started preparations for its first heavy-lift flight of 2013 carrying the Amazonas 3 and Azerspace/Africasat-1 telecommunications satellites.

Russian Proton heavy-lift rocket suffered a failure during launch, delivering Gazprom Space System’s telecommunication satellite into a lower orbit than desired.

Iran’s oil tankers are sending incorrect satellite signals to global tracking systems to conceal their voyages to Syria.

North Korea announced it plans to delay the launch of a long-range rocket to orbit a satellite originally scheduled to take off between December 10 and 22, 2012.

NASA released high-quality images of the Plosky Tolbachik volcano on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula that suddenly erupted after being dormant for 36 years.

The new MapBox Satellite allows users to customize public domain satellite imagery through its platform.