The LeoLabs dashboard shown offers alerts when Chinese, Iranian or Russian spacecraft maneuver in low Earth orbit. Credit: LeoLabs COLORADO SPRINGS – A LeoLabs maneuver-detection dashboard displayed ...

By taking advantage of a maneuver that would see a spacecraft fire rocket engines while in the solar corona, that ...

The Mission 1 Lander performed its first lunar orbit insertion maneuver in accordance with the mission operation plan, at 10:24 (JST), on March 21, 2023, under the direction of ispace engineers at the ...

Hundreds of satellites may soon be flying in orbital regions that are already too packed to allow safe and long-term operations, a new study suggests. The study found that, while in 2019 only 0.2% of ...

A U.S. X-37B space plane is slated to test a new way of rapidly changing its orbit, part of the Space Force’s quest for fuel-sipping maneuverability. The spacecraft will experiment with aerobraking, ...

In a first joint demonstration, the companies showed how collaborations among innovative commercial companies can support complex space missions at speed. EL SEGUNDO, Calif. and MENLO PARK, Calif. and ...

A self-capatured image of Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft in space. Credit: Roscosmos HELSINKI — Russia’s Luna-25 mission ended in failure after crashing into the moon, space agency Roscosmos has ...

The U.S. Space Force's X-37B spaceplane is conducting a groundbreaking mission involving a novel aerobraking maneuver to dispose of unneeded equipment. This maneuver uses atmospheric drag to rapidly ...

X-37B started executing a series of aerobraking maneuvers to change from a highly elliptical orbit to a lower orbit. Reading time 2 minutes After seven test flights, Boeing is finally starting to open ...

The space agency began the process of parking its Artemis 1 spacecraft in a distant retrograde orbit at 4:52 p.m. ET on Friday, November 25. Reading time 2 minutes The uncrewed Orion capsule has ...

You may well be thinking, “Hang on! Isn’t the whole point of ‘space’ that there’s no air up there?” You’re right, in a way. And yes, rockets and satellites usually rely on actual “rocket” engines to ...

The US Space Force's secret-but-not-really-secret spaceplane will carry out a novel maneuver called aerobraking to change its orbit. Instead of using thrusters, the robotic spacecraft will dip into ...