SpaceX sent up the Space Coast’s 10th launch of the year Wednesday night, but skipped any landing attempt of its booster. A ...

This first batch went into a polar (sun-synchronous) orbit, and the resulting satellite train was spotted in orbit shortly ...

Flying at an altitude of around 45km, their polar orbit will require more juice than a typical orbit because the spacecraft can’t use the Earth’s rotation to boost velocity. This added energy ...

NASA partners with private companies to search for lunar water ice, a key factor for future human exploration of the moon ...

NASA has decided to swap the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule for its upcoming Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station ...

Four hundred million copper wires are now circling the globe in a polar orbit at an altitude of 2300 miles. These "needles" are part of Project West Ford which began in 1958 when it was first ...

The Long March 6A lifted off at 12:11 a.m. Eastern (0511 UTC) Jan. 23 from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China, carrying 18 Qianfan (Thousand Sails) Polar orbit group 6 satellites into ...

The booster’s successful return also marks SpaceX's first polar orbit mission from Florida. In the wee hours of the morning in India, on the other side of the world, SpaceX was busy getting its ...

The PUNCH constellation of satellites is targeted to launch in late February 2025 into a polar orbit along the day-night line, so the spacecraft will remain in the sunlight with a clear view in ...

MEASAT has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Shanghai Spacesail Technologies to advance Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite services.

NASA’s Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer (EZIE) has arrived at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, where the ...