Related: Wild solar weather is causing satellites to plummet from orbit As of November 2024, there are 6,764 Starlink satellites in orbit, of which 6,714 are working, according to Astronomer ...

Falcon-9 put the GSAT-N2 to a geosynchronous transfer orbit. This is India’s first collaboration with Elon Musk’s SpaceX. It is a Ka-band high-throughput communication satellite of ...

Mini-moons like 2024 PT5 are small asteroids that Earth’s gravity grabs for a bit, letting them orbit our planet before they move on. These little guys usually travel around the sun like other ...

The satellite separated from the rocket 34 minutes post-launch and was successfully placed into its geosynchronous transfer orbit. In an earlier TOI report, NSIL Chairman and Managing Director ...

India's Gsat-20 communication satellite, designed to boost broadband and in-flight connectivity, was launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket from Florida. The satellite, weighing 4,700kg and ...

According to Space.com, the rocket shoots off and reaches orbit successfully marking a perfect mission for SpaceX, which is further boosting both its credentials related to launching satellites ...

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 ...

Credit: GITAI TAMPA, Fla. — Space robotics specialist GITAI has raised an extra $15.5 million in venture capital to help expand into the nascent in-orbit servicing market. The Torrance ...

Firefly has launched Alpha five times since September 2021, though only three of these successfully placed the payloads in orbit. The company set a new record with the third Alpha mission in ...

The Falcon 9's upper stage, meanwhile, continued hauling KoreaSat-6A to geosynchronous transfer orbit, deploying it there about 34.5 minutes after launch. The 3.9-ton (3.5 metric tons) KoreaSat-6A ...

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 ...