AVS US has launched two small satellites aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to achieve the world’s first fully autonomous docking using just GPS.

In 2017, the 41st PSLV flight was supposed to launch IRNSS-1H, the eighth satellite of the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS), into a Sub-Geosynchronous transfer Orbit (Sub-GTO). Here ...

In 2000, there were fewer than 1,000 satellites in Earth orbit. Today, SpaceX alone operates more than 7,000 Starlink satellites, and it hopes to increase that total to 42,000.

US Space Force intelligence reported RPO by China involving five satellites, three Shiyan-24C and two Shijan series satellites, between March 24 and April 24. These are Chinese experimental satellites ...

Indian space agency ISRO’s latest navigation satellite, NVS-02, will not reach geostationary orbit because a pyro valve, meant to let in the oxidiser, failed to open. Without the oxidiser, the ...

Standing at 44.4 meters tall, it can carry payloads of up to 1,750 kg to Sun-Synchronous Polar Orbits at an altitude of 600 km. Due to its reliability, the PSLV has also been instrumental in ...

The PSLV has also been used to launch various satellites into Geosynchronous and Geostationary orbits, like satellites from the IRNSS Constellation. The PSLV is capable of placing multiple ...

A satellite is a human-made object that orbits Earth or other celestial bodies, serving various purposes such as communication, navigation, Earth observation, or scientific research. Satellites ...

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has given the green light for a new Collaborative Research Center "Advancing Technologies of Very Low Altitude Satellites" (SFB 1667 ATLAS). Under ...

While NavIC is an independent stand-alone navigation satellite system, currently operating on a regional scale, the Indian government has clarified its stand on developing it as a global satellite ...

Learn how NavIC, India's regional navigation satellite system, compares with other regional systems like BeiDou and QZSS in terms of features, benefits, and challenges.

All about GPS/GNSS simulators The application of satellite navigation in everyday products has increased exponentially, with integrated GNSS receivers being used in navigation, ground mapping and ...