Under the new GHOST-R effort, the Defense Innovation Unit hopes to have a high-resolution bird operating on orbit within 24 months.

Engineers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's (NRL) Naval Center for Space Technology (NCST) recently completed robotic payload component level testing for the Defense Advanced Research Projects ...

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 ...

Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP) artist rendering. Credit: U.S. Air Force NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – At the request of unspecified users, the U.S. Air Force has twice taken a ...

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).

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Thursday (Dec 17, 2020) launched the 52nd mission of Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) code-named PSLV-C50 from Second launch pad of Satish Dhawan ...

For many college students, satellites are faint dots crossing the sky on clear nights. These objects are background details from science fiction to reality, like GPS, satellite radio, and WiFi. A NASA ...