The company is developing a space-based power plant to harvest 24/7 solar energy from the Molniya orbit. In an interview with Interesting Engineering, former SpaceX rocket engineer and Virtus ...
Soyuz lifted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome at about 10:31 Moscow Time (07:31 UTC), beginning a multi-hour mission to deliver the Tundra No.4 satellite into an elliptical Molniya orbit.
The Arktika-M No.1 satellite, aboard a Soyuz-2-1b/Fregat rocket, lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 12:55 local time (06:55 UTC) on Sunday bound for an elliptical Molniya orbit.
"Gliese 229B was considered the poster-child brown dwarf, and now we know we were wrong all along about the nature of the object. It's not one but two." A well-studied cosmic object has stunned ...
The interesting properties of orbits with critical inclination (Molniya orbit), sun-synchronous orbits, frozen orbits, and the long-term coupling between sun-moon attractions and Earth oblateness ...
It sounds like something out of a science-fiction movie. For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is more than just a ...
A vacation trailer brand constructed by Fleetwood RV, Orbit first entered the recreational product marketplace in the 2000 model year. Constructing travel trailers and fifth wheel trailers, Orbit ...
TAMPA, Fla. — The Intelsat 33e satellite has broken up in geostationary orbit (GEO) and lost power, ceasing communications services for customers across Europe, Africa and parts of Asia Pacific.
Seated, left to right, are D-Orbit CEO Luca Rossettini and ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher signing an agreement for Europe's first life extension mission for a satellite in geostationary orbit.
Earlier this year, astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were sent into orbit on a Boeing Starliner. What initially looked like a feel-good storyline for the company has turned into something ...
It sounds like something out of a science-fiction movie. For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is more than just a ...
A vacation trailer brand constructed by Fleetwood RV, Orbit first entered the recreational product marketplace in the 2000 model year. Constructing travel trailers and fifth wheel trailers, Orbit ...