A California startup wants to beam extra sunlight to Earth orbiting mirrors, but some are skeptical about whether the physics ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Polar orbits are often used for earth-mapping, as well as for some weather satellites. Geostationary satellites take 24 hours to orbit the Earth, so the satellite appears to remain in the same ...

PSLV C-35 launched a 371-kg weather satellite (SCATSAT-1) into the Polar Sun Synchronous Orbit (Polar SSO) at an altitude of 720 km. As per the standard PSLV configuration, this satellite was ...