It can deliver a single 300-kilogram satellite or multiple satellites with a combined weight of 300 kilograms into a 500-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit. It can also carry a 350-kilogram payload ...

Just be warned: It won't be easy to spot in the sun's glow, according to astronomers. The orbit Venus takes around the sun periodically results in a phenomenon astronomers refer to as an inferior ...

People will be able to see the Sun up close as a new artwork goes on display at an 18th Century hall. The Helios sculpture, named after the ancient Greek god of the Sun, is shining bright in ...

The rocket deployed CSO-3 into a sun-synchronous orbit about 500 miles (800 kilometers) above Earth 66 minutes after liftoff as planned, Arianespace announced via X. Satellites in sun-synchronous ...

The Sun is the brightest thing around ... other manmade object before it and it’s giving us new data with every orbit. Trump and Putin agree on 'energy and infrastructure ceasefire' as step ...

For six years, the Connecticut Sun knocked on the door of WNBA immortality. No matter their roster or postseason draw, the Sun made six straight trips to the WNBA semifinals, a streak eclipsed ...

A control team at the ESA's European Space Operations Center powered down all of Gaia's subsystems and sent it into a "retirement orbit" around the Sun. Advertisement "Gaia's extensive data ...

Winter is a time for me to wrap up in blankets and read. Among the books I have enjoyed so far is Orbital by Samantha Harvey, which won the 2024 Booker prize. It follows six astronauts on the ...

Increasingly, says McDowell, companies want to place satellites into sun-synchronous orbit, a type of polar orbit where a satellite orbiting Earth stays in perpetual sunlight. This is useful for ...

And while associating earthquakes with solar or lunar activity might sound like a conspiracy theory, recent research suggests a possible link between the Sun’s heat and seismic activity.