There's a new race in space, but it's not where you might think. It's happening close to home – in the nearest bit of space, ...

Not quite high-altitude planes and not quite low-orbiting ... lower orbit that would skim the top of Earth's atmosphere. Known as Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO), spacecraft at these altitudes have ...

India just launched its first mission of 2025. The Indian Space Research Organisation 's (ISRO) Geosynchronous Satellite ...

This aerial photo taken on Dec 10, 2023 shows a Chinese commercial reusable rocket named SQX-2Y blasting off from the Jiuquan ...

Most low earth orbit spacecraft travel at speeds of 17,500 ... Column 3: “Start Pass Time” tells when a spacecraft arrives at an altitude of 10 degrees above the horizon.

It is also capable of carrying a 350-kilogram payload to a low-Earth orbit at an altitude of 200 kilometers. Monday's launch marks the 16th flight of the Ceres-1 rocket, which has now placed 63 ...

If we keep up this pace, orbital space will become unusable—especially the most popular region, low Earth orbit (LEO), which extends up to 2,000 kilometers in altitude. When looking at all ...

(Blue Origin) While the booster successfully delivered its second stage and payload into low-Earth orbit, the return to ... up into the atmosphere to an altitude above 100 kilometers.

If low-Earth orbit satellites are problematic ... disappointed that OneWeb decided to keep their satellites at a higher altitude, whereas SpaceX have been more willing to keep their satellites ...