The object’s aphelion—the farthest point on the orbit from the sun—is more than 1,600 times that of Earth’s orbit,” Institute ...

For years, the commercial space sector has been abuzz about the prospect of satellite "super constellations" in Earth orbit.

Each orbit the planet begins out beyond the habitable zone, where it is too cold for liquid water, before passing right through the habitable zone to its inner edge where temperatures rise for a ...

When space objects do collide, they eject high-speed debris in multiple directions, creating a new zone of hazardous junk in orbit. "It could generate a chain reaction, an unstoppable chain ...

MERRITT ISLAND, Fla. - SpaceX is preparing to launch a new batch of Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit on Wednesday ...

which previously launched O3b mPOWER-E and Crew-10 to orbit. Following stage separation, the first stage returned intact to Landing Zone 2 (LZ-2) at Cape Canaveral, notching up the 435th landing ...

But most satellites operate in a zone called "low Earth orbit," between 200 and 2,000 kilometers up, and can take hundreds to thousands of years to fall. The higher outermost reaches of Earth's ...

Some satellites are already in polar orbit, and researchers called it a routine ... SpaceX shifted its landing zone to the West Coast for the private Fram2 mission.