A German startup named Isar Aerospace will try to launch its first rocket Saturday, aiming to become the first in a wave of ...

Both missions are heading to a Sun-synchronous orbit around Earth's poles, ensuring consistent orientation relative to the Sun throughout the year. Listen to Story SpaceX launched two significant Nasa ...

By early on March 12, the four satellites of the PUNCH constellation had been deployed and ground ... will orbit Earth at an ...

The duo launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 11:10 p.m. EST (0310 March 12 GMT). There was a glimmer in the air tonight at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, and it wasn't only because ...

And it helps that the missions are going to a similar place: a sun-synchronous orbit around Earth’s poles, meaning each spacecraft keeps the same orientation relative to the sun throughout the year.

SCOT has been deployed in a sun-synchronous orbit that allows it to track objects in Low Earth Orbit with more efficiency than existing sensors, which are restricted by fields of view, weather ...

They envision deploying a ring of 57 satellites in sun-synchronous orbit, which would allow them to provide an additional 30 minutes of sunshine to a solar farm anywhere on Earth. Notably ...

“The deployable structure used to activate the sun-tracking mechanism has been designed in such a way that it can be easily applied to existing stadiums,” the research's corresponding ...