An orbiting data centre, in a dawn-dusk sun-synchronous polar orbit that keeps it in continuous sunlight, could harness abundant solar energy. (With no atmosphere or clouds to scatter or block the ...

the Vega-C will deploy Biomass into a sun-synchronous orbit 414 miles (666 kilometers) above Earth about 57 minutes after liftoff. The 2,490-pound (1,130-kilogram) satellite will then undergo a ...

The image was captured by the Pleiades-1B satellite, a high-resolution optical Earth-imaging satellite that covers the entire surface of the planet in 26 days from a Sun-synchronous orbit.

"The heliogeophysical satellites Ionosfera-M No. 1 and No. 2 were placed into the Earth's sun-synchronous orbit," the statement said. The rocket also carried 53 other satellites. Ionosfera-M ...