Satellites that retire are deorbited into a graveyard orbit within 25 years of their missions ending. This is the case with ...

So it's really more of a graveyard region than graveyard orbit. "You must target, with 90 percent probability, that you will clear this 200 km-plus region," Milan Klinc, a flight dynamics engineer ...

Instead, on Jan. 19, DirecTV requested that the FCC allow the company to relocate the satellite to a higher orbit known as the "graveyard orbit," roughly 185 miles (300 km) above its current path ...

First thought to have originated from a distant cosmic object, the short and intense signal was actually coming from much ...

China's Shijian-21 and Shijian-25 satellites had been moving toward each other in geosynchronous orbit, around 22,236 miles ...

A DirecTV satellite at risk of exploding will make an emergency maneuver to push itself into a deserted area of space known as “graveyard” orbit, according to public filings. The hope is that ...

EchoStar Corp. said a satellite launched 20 years ago that's no longer being used is now in "graveyard orbit." The Douglas County company (Nasdaq: SATS) said EchoStar III satellite has now been ...

Therien said that Spaceway-1, which operated from geostationary orbit some 36,000 kilometers above the equator, had by Feb. 10 completed its 500 kilometer climb to a graveyard orbit.

The satellite displayed On-Orbit Servicing, Assembly and Manufacturing (OSAM) capabilities and moved the second satellite to a "graveyard orbit." ...

Halloween may be over, but [happysat] has found a way to listen to the dead. Satellites, that is, specifically those in the 136-138 MHz and 150-400 MHz ranges. He’s using an RTL-SDR dongle an… ...