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The Aerospace Corporation presented the first six months of on-orbit results for DiskSat, a satellite built as a disc 1 meter across and 2.5 centimeters deep, at the Small Satellite Conference in…
NASA and Katalyst Space will not attempt to raise the orbit of NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, the agency announced Aug. 19, citing an ongoing attitude-control problem on Katalyst's LINK…
LandSpace landed the first stage of its Zhuque-3 rocket after an orbital launch, the Chinese company said, about six minutes after the vehicle left the pad with a satellite aboard. The Zhuque-3 Y2…
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has photographed the crater left when a spent Falcon 9 upper stage struck the Moon on Aug. 5. The crater measures about 60 feet across. The orbiter imaged the site…
Earth has almost no memory of its own violent childhood. Plate tectonics keeps recycling the crust, erasing the scars of the asteroid barrage that battered every young world in the inner Solar…
Ask a national regulator whether a satellite is safe to launch and you will get an answer about that satellite. Will it come down within the required window? Can it be steered out of somebody else's…