A team led by Peng Zhou at Fudan University has built a radio-frequency communication system from atomically thin molybdenum ...
A small asteroid came within a cosmic hairbreadth of the ring of communications satellites circling the Earth in geosynchronous orbit this week. Passing by our planet at an altitude of about 35,000 km ...
A new Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) solicitation, published on Tuesday, Feb. 17, shows that ...
The Pentagon is testing a new way to acquire satellites. DIU would select vendors capable of developing and fielding a GEO reconnaissance system on commercial terms and timelines, demonstrating it ...
ULA’s Vulcan launches Space Force mission; solid booster anomaly under investigation ULA’s Vulcan launches U.S. Space Force mission to geosynchronous orbit ...
The Vulcan rocket leapt off its pad at 4:22 a.m. EST, lighting up the Florida coast before a problem inside one of its ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SpaceX is set to launch a Falcon 9 rocket carrying two Intelsat satellites on Saturday morning. The launch is scheduled for 11:06 ...
A geosynchronous orbit (sometimes abbreviated GSO) is an Earth-centered orbit with an orbital period that matches Earth's rotation on its axis, 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds (one sidereal day).
Last Saturday (March 15) a Russian Proton Breeze-M launch vehicle failed to place the AMC-14 satellite into geosynchronous orbit. SES Americom, operator of the satellite, confirmed that “an anomaly ...