The payload Russia's military chose to launch on the Angara A5 is unusual. The rocket deployed its primary passenger, Kosmos ...

China may have just become the first country to attempt satellite-to-satellite refuelling in geosynchronous orbit ...

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China has successfully extended a satellite’s life by eight years through the first-ever in-orbit refueling in geostationary ...

China has reportedly completed the world’s first satellite refueling mission in geostationary orbit, transferring 142 kg of ...

A SPACE capsule carrying the remains of 166 people and a bounty of cannabis plants has been lost at sea following a surprise ...

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

Though the space debris issue has been taken more seriously in recent years, scientists have discovered that destructive re-orbit, the standard method of debris disposal for modern Low Earth Orbit ...

China appears on the verge of carrying out a historic satellite-to-satellite refuelling mission in high orbit, a potential advance that has prompted the US to deploy two military surveillance ...

Earth’s orbit is filling up with junk. Greenhouse gases are making the problem worse. At any given moment, more than 10,000 satellites are whizzing around the planet at roughly 17,000 miles per ...