Earth, sun, moon: three objects in space whose interactions have a pretty big impact on our lives. Earth orbits the sun once ...

The Washington-based startup’s Otter spacecraft is designed for two primary missions: extending the operational life of expensive satellites in geostationary orbit (GEO) and disposing of defunct ...

Firefly has launched Alpha five times since September 2021, though only three of these successfully placed the payloads in orbit. The company set a new record with the third Alpha mission in ...

An unknown small object, traveling thousands of miles per hour, punctured a satellite in Earth's orbit. The satellite company NanoAvionics released images online showing the damage to its MP42 ...

Today (Nov. 8), for the first time, Dragon performed an orbit-raising maneuver to stabilize the ISS's trajectory in low-Earth orbit. Such maneuvers are routine for the orbital lab, which requires ...

The ISS is in low Earth orbit, roughly 250 miles (400 km) above our planet. Stray molecules of Earth's atmosphere combine to drag the six-bedroom complex down over time, making it necessary to use ...

The Soyuz rocket took off from the Vostochny launchpad in far eastern Russia, deploying Russian satellites into orbit and several dozen smaller satellites, including two from Iran. The Kowsar and ...

The rocket is headed to the International Space Station (ISS), where the materials will undergo testing in the extreme conditions of low Earth orbit to determine their ability to be used to ... If the ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A Russian rocket blasted off successfully on Tuesday to carry a pair of Iranian satellites into orbit, a ...

The company released a video detailing the experimental maneuvers currently being carried out by the vehicle in space to alter its orbit. Boeing recently put up a brief, two-minute video on X ...

A Russian rocket carrying a payload of satellites into orbit – including two from Iran – blasted off successfully, Russia’s Roscosmos space agency said, in a move seen as reflecting the ...