Welcome to Edition 7.36 of the Rocket Report! Well, after nine months, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are ...

LEO networks like Starlink are challenging GEO operators, driving innovation as competition, cost pressures, and new ...

SpaceX has launched the next-generation Spanish communications satellite Wednesday night (Jan. 29), soaring the spacecraft into a geostationary transfer orbit. The Falcon 9 rocket carrying ...

The rocket was carrying and a Japanese communications satellite called JCSAT-14 into a geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) — a fixed spot 25,000 miles above Earth. (The satellite will support ...

The SYstème de Lancement Double Ariane, or SYLDA, was designed to allow the two satellites to be stacked on top of each other and released in a geostationary transfer orbit. The primary space ...

The Shijian-20 communications satellite successfully separated from the upper stage and entered geostationary transfer orbit 40 minutes later. The China Aerospace Science and Technology ...

with the launcher being able to lift up to 11,200 kg to Low Earth Orbit and 5,100 kg to Geostationary Transfer Orbit. Enhanced versions of the 3B and 3C variants include lengthened boosters and ...

The booster put the satellite into a geostationary transfer orbit, but it was the spacecraft’s own onboard propulsion systems that were responsible for carrying it the rest of the way.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Late Monday evening, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a massive 10,000-pound ...

The 4,900-kilogram satellite was deployed into a geostationary transfer orbit 29 minutes after liftoff. Michibiki 6 will enhance the Quasi-Zenith Satellite System, improving GPS services in Japan ...