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

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 ...

A Long March 3B carrier rocket blasted off at 11:55 pm deploying the Tianlian II-04 satellite into orbit, the State-owned ...

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

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 ...

A New Mexico company is pushing the boundaries of laser technology in orbit. Find out how their innovation might impact ...

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.

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 ...

After that, Northrop Grumman controllers began a series of engine burns to raise MEV-1’s orbit from its highly elliptical Geostationary Transfer Orbit up to a circular orbit 300 km above the ...

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 ...