The Department of Defense's announcement that it would end a weather-data sharing program surprised some climate watchdogs ...

Most satellites move in either a "geostationary" or "polar" orbit. A geostationary satellite travels from west to east over the equator, in the same direction and at the same rate Earth is spinning.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket just launched an advanced European weather satellite and aced its landing on a ship at sea. The ...

Live updates from the launch of the EUMETSAT MTG-S1 weather satellite for ESA. Liftoff occurred at 5:04 p.m. July 1 from ...

China is positioning a satellite to test its ability to refuel another in orbit over Earth and extend its mission for several more years.

Chinese spacecraft prepare for orbital refueling test as US surveillance sats lurk nearby Two Chinese Shijian satellites appear to be maneuvering towards a rendezvous and docking in geostationary ...

He and his colleagues investigated how to set up a satellite recycling facility in geostationary orbit — the region about 22,000 miles (36,000 kilometers) above Earth's surface where satellites ...

Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh), May 18 (PTI) ISRO on Sunday failed to put its earth observation satellite in orbit after its trusted PSLV rocket developed a fault minutes after launch from the ...

Multi-orbit inflight connectivity is taking advantage of the complementary capabilities of geostationary and low Earth orbit communications satellites.

Designed to gather advanced meteorological insights from geostationary orbit, the spacecraft will snap up severe weather, wildfire, volcano, and atmospheric data, allowing the NOAA to monitor ...

A Colorado company will become the first to perform an on-orbit refueling of a United States Department of Defense space asset.