Polar Orbiting satellites, such as POES, orbit around the Earth crossing over the poles and are 500 miles away from the surface. POES are also in sync with the sun, unlike GOES which observes the ...

Discover the different types of satellite orbits, including Geostationary Orbit (GEO), Low Earth Orbit (LEO), Medium Earth Orbit (MEO), Polar and Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO). Learn how Transfer ...

LEO, GEO, L2, SSO—oh my! The many types of useful orbits can get complicated fast, but our handy guide will help you make sense of it all.

This article explores the key types of orbits: Geostationary Orbit (GEO), Low Earth Orbit (LEO), Medium Earth Orbit (MEO), Polar Orbit, Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO), Transfer Orbit, and ...

SpaceX will ring in July with a doubleheader launch day. Here's what to know about the two rocket launches coming up.

On television, we generally can only show you satellite imagery from geostationary satellites which stay in place and look down Don Paul: Polar orbiters are unsung heroes of spot-on weather ...

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

For 28 years, Europe has been operating its famous Meteosat weather satellites in geostationary orbit. Today, they were joined by the first of a brand new generation of meteorological satellites.

A satellite is any object that moves around a larger object -- like Earth around the sun, or the moon around Earth. But "satellite" usually refers to a machine that's put together here on Earth ...

NASA and NOAA are launching a satellite called JPSS-2, which will join other satellites in a polar orbit, ... in a geostationary orbit 22,300 miles above the Earth’s surface.