NASA's newest space telescope blasts off to map the entire sky and millions of galaxies
NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at ...
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General Atomics testing remotely piloted flight with satellite network key to polar operations
The uncrewed aircraft manufacturer says it has completed two test flights of a Grey Eagle 25M controlled remotely via a ...
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Long March 8 launches Thousand Sails satellites from commercial spaceport
A new group of 18 satellites entered orbit Tuesday for the Thousand Sails constellation with the first launch from a new ...
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Science: Space Watch’s First Catch
Strayed Capsule. In the Discoverer series, the Air Force’s purpose is to fire a satellite into polar orbit, then bring it back by firing a retrorocket that detaches a recovery capsule ...
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Climate Change Might Increase Satellite Collisions, Limiting How Many Can Safely Orbit Earth, Study Finds
Greenhouse gas emissions could reduce drag in the upper atmosphere, leaving more space debris in orbit and making satellites ...
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Thales and SES demonstrate compatibility of secure anti-jamming waveforms with MEO satellites
Thales and SES for the first time demonstrated the compatibility of Thales's Modem21 system with SES's O3b mPOWER satellites, ...
ISRO undocks SpaDex satellites in first attempt
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully undocked the SpaDex satellites, paving way for Bharatiya Antriksha ...
Climate change may reduce the number of satellites that can safely orbit in space
MIT aerospace engineers have found that greenhouse gas emissions are changing the environment of near-Earth space in ways ...
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India successfully undocks SpaDeX satellites
The ISRO accomplished the pivotal operation of undocking SpaDeX satellites in the first attempt at 09:20 local time on Thursday. The undocking of the satellites took place in 460 km circular orbit ...
When Europe needed it most, the Ariane 6 rocket finally delivered
The 184-foot-tall (56-meter) rocket lifted off from Kourou, French Guiana, at 11:24 am EST (16:24 UTC). Twin solid-fueled boosters and a hydrogen-fueled core stage engine powered the Ariane 6 through ...
Q&A: Rocket launches are proliferating. What is this doing to the atmosphere?
Every few days now, a giant rocket blasts a fiery trail through the atmosphere, lofting satellites into orbit, carrying out ...
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NASA’s newest space telescope blasts off to map the entire sky and millions of galaxies
Besides the telescope, SpaceX’s Falcon rocket provided a lift from Vandenberg Space Force Base for a quartet of NASA satellites called Punch. From their own separate polar orbit, the satellites ...