Dhruva’s Polar Access-1 will place four satellites into a sun-synchronous orbit, along with five separation systems and ...

After our recent posts on rainbow plane offsets and the list of imaging satellites we thought it would be interesting to see what a sun-synchronous orbit actually looks like in Google Earth. We have ...

ISRO Chairman V Narayanan visited the Tirupati temple on Saturday and offered prayers ahead of the PSLV-C62 mission to deploy the EOS-N1 ‘earth observation satellite’ along with 14 other payloads into ...

Arianespace’s Ariane 5 launcher once again demonstrated its operational maturity and accuracy today by placing a seven-satellite payload into Sun-synchronous orbit. Drawing of the Ariane 5 payload ...

The Chinese company Space Pioneer successfully launched its Tianlong-2 rocket into orbit early Sunday (April 2), making space exploration history in the process. The 4:48 a.m. Beijing Time launch from ...

Virgin Orbit developed very similar technology to the Pegasus under wing launched rocket from Northrop Grumman. Carrying the rocket on the large plane was fine ane the first stage was fine and the ...

China launched the world's first methane-fueled rocket last Wednesday, Dec. 14. It was supposed to be a historic moment until the rocket, unfortunately, failed to reach orbit. Landspace, a ...