Arianespace’s Ariane 5 launcher once again demonstrated its operational maturity and accuracy today by placing a seven-satellite payload into Sun-synchronous orbit. Drawing of the Ariane 5 payload ...
Space debris – the collection of defunct human-made objects in Earth's orbit – is already affecting space agencies, companies ...
Google’s ambitious Project Suncatcher proposes launching a constellation of 81 satellites into low Earth orbit (LEO) to ...
Google's ambitious Project Suncatcher, a space-based AI data centre, faces potential collision risks due to an increasingly congested low Earth orbit.
The 57-foot Hanbit-Nano lifted off from Brazil’s Alcantara Space Center at 8:13 p.m. EST but crashed back to Earth about a ...
The Chinese company Space Pioneer successfully launched its Tianlong-2 rocket into orbit early Sunday (April 2), making space exploration history in the process. The 4:48 a.m. Beijing Time launch from ...
China placed a multirole satellite in space on Tuesday afternoon, according to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp.
The Zhuque 2 Y-3 rocket, powered by methane and liquid oxygen, soared into the skies from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China, on Saturday, Dec. 9. This marked a watershed moment in ...
Every 98-minute orbit the observatory makes will allow it to view a 360-degree strip of the sky in both optical as well as near-infrared light. The telescope can capture more 360-degree strips as the ...