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21 Jul 2019, 8:07 am
As a result, the space program has been killing time for 40 years with a series of orbital projects ... [read post]
27 Aug 2020, 12:16 pm by Jon Brodkin
The additional 1,280 satellites were approved for medium Earth orbits of 8,500km. [read post]
21 Apr 2007, 11:56 am
The April issue of NASAâ € ™s Orbital Debris Quarterly News labels the Chinese ASAT test as creating the most severe orbital debris cloud in history. [read post]
12 Jan 2024, 6:13 am by Mark Ashton
Yes, it’s January which means that accountants all across America are locking into their space capsules for launch into orbit where they will prepare countless returns due on April 15 for TY 2023 and then gently parachute onto some Caribbean island for a staged recovery. [read post]
12 Feb 2010, 7:53 am by Jeff Foust
In front of a friendly, receptive audience, she made the case for greater use by NASA of commercial space capabilities, both orbital and suborbital. [read post]
13 May 2014, 11:33 am
The wealthy have moved into an orbiting luxury satellite—the Elysium of the title—while the wretched majority of humans remain in squalor on Earth…. [read post]
14 Aug 2018, 4:31 am by SHG
This makes her just like most people in Trump’s orbit. [read post]
29 Jan 2020, 10:44 am by Tom Smith
Of order half of nearby stars have at least one (and often several) worlds with masses substantially greater than Earth and orbital periods ranging from mere days to weeks; in our system, the space interior to tiny Mercury’s 88-day orbit is entirely empty. [read post]
14 Jun 2012, 10:00 pm by Ken
Much of the national dialogue orbits the question of how much central government is too much — of whether or not power should be taken from the hands of the feds and returned to the hands of states and localities. [read post]
23 Nov 2021, 9:05 pm by Caitlin Kim
But real estate for orbiting satellites is finite. [read post]
22 Jan 2010, 8:00 am by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
HiRISE is one of six instruments on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). [read post]
6 Sep 2015, 11:41 am
It is believed that as the dying star and white dwarf orbit around their common center of mass, the ejected gas from the dying star is pulled into two lobes rather than expanding as a uniform sphere. [read post]
1 Mar 2020, 6:07 am
  If the Times reporters had done their homework more thoroughly, they might have come across accounts in Space News: "MEV-1 will remain attached to Intelsat-901 and use its own thrusters to keep the satellite properly oriented in orbit. [read post]
16 Jan 2021, 6:19 am
If you want to know why NASA chose lunar orbit rendezvous as the strategy to land on the Moon, we can delve into the details, and update you on Buzz Aldrin's doctoral paper at MIT on orbital mechanics. [read post]
1 Mar 2020, 6:07 am
  If the Times reporters had done their homework more thoroughly, they might have come across accounts in Space News: "MEV-1 will remain attached to Intelsat-901 and use its own thrusters to keep the satellite properly oriented in orbit. [read post]
30 Dec 2012, 11:29 pm by Mitchell Lazarus
 Antennas on board the planes will have to maintain a sufficiently accurate bead on the satellite so to avoid causing interference to adjacent satellites in orbit. [read post]
14 Feb 2023, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
However, even a fast-moving satellite cannot maintain a stable orbit within the Earth’s atmosphere because the drag from the surrounding air would slow the satellite and lead its orbit to decay. [read post]
6 Dec 2017, 2:47 pm by Tom Smith
For this technique, the signal of the stellar wobble is bigger for more massive planets in closer orbits. [read post]
18 Feb 2012, 11:00 am
High Orbits and Slowlorises: understanding the Anonymous attack tools : Putting the Low-Orbit Ion Cannon behind them to better protect themselves from being tracked down, members of Anonymous have put together a package of DDoS tools and security best practices that aims to make them more effective and less of a target for law enforcement. [read post]