A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched two NASA science probes on March 11, 2025 in a spectacular nighttime liftoff from ...

Nearly seven decades later, satellites have become an integral part of our daily lives, powering global positioning systems ...

Besides the telescope, SpaceX’s Falcon rocket provided a lift from Vandenberg for a quartet of NASA satellites called Punch.

The $488 million Spherex mission aims to explain how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years, and how the universe ...

Together with the NOAA-18 satellite, which circles the earth in an afternoon polar orbit—the local overflight time in the descending node is 2 pm—MetOp-A makes it possible to comprehensively monitor ...

The Solar Polar Orbit Observatory is currently scheduled to launch in 2029. The spacecraft will perform a gravity assist maneuver at Jupiter, altering its course to enter a high-inclination orbit ...

Since the Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft launched in late February as a rideshare spacecraft along with a Falcon 9 launch, NASA has been providing a series of increasingly worrisome updates about the ...

Four suitcase-sized spacecraft, designed and built by Southwest Research Institute, passed all final evaluations and are now loaded into the faring awaiting launch into low Earth orbit no earlier ...

is a constellation of four suitcase-sized satellites that are set to blast off for a sun-synchronous low polar orbit on Tuesday (March 4). Skirting the day/night terminator, these satellites will ...

E. Berg, commanding officer of Dark Fence, decided that something was circling overhead on a roughly polar orbit. He raced to the Pentagon and in person reported the menacing stranger to Chief of ...

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 ...

Polar orbits are often used for earth-mapping, as well as for some weather satellites. Geostationary satellites take 24 hours to orbit the Earth, so the satellite appears to remain in the same ...