Space logistics and orbital transportation company D-Orbit launched Starfield, the eighth commercial mission of their proprietary orbital transfer vehicle (OTV) ION Satellite Carrier (ION), and the ...

The hazard to space operations from debris is a function of the nature of those operations and the orbital region in which they take place. The orbital region is important because the debris flux ...

TAMPA, Fla. — AST SpaceMobile is spending $5 million more on its first commercial direct-to-smartphone satellites so SpaceX can launch them early next year to a different orbital inclination to ...

For decades,reaching Mars has meant committing to long, complex journeys across millions of miles of space, missions measured in years, not months. But what if a faster route has been hiding in plain ...

As the complexity of space missions—such as Earth–Moon transport and deep-space exploration—continues to increase, the classical Keplerian two-body model can no longer meet the precision requirements ...

SpaceX is expanding its rideshare program with a new series of missions aimed at meeting the demand for launches to mid-inclination orbits. The new program, which was quietly announced at a space ...

The leading theory for lunar origin is the giant impact 9,10, which explains the Moon’s large relative size and small iron core. Here we refer to the giant-impact theory in which the Earth–Moon ...

Nearly a week after launch, space tracking systems were able to locate a mysterious satellite parked in an unusually low orbit. China launched the experimental satellite to test new technologies, but ...

According to Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Bakanov, the sattelite's launch revealed that the radiation load in polar orbit was higher than on the orbit currently occupied by the ISS MOSCOW, January 27. /TASS/.