INSAT-3DS, India's newest satellite for weather has entered the desired geosynchronous orbit just above the Earth to start the observations. The news was officially out by ISRO, where the space agency ...

Regular followers of space news will know that when satellites or space probes reach the end of their life, they either are de-orbited in a fiery re-entry, or they stay lifeless in orbit, often in a ...

A geosynchronous orbit is a geocentric orbit that has the same orbital period as the sidereal rotation period of the Earth. It has a semi-major axis of 42,164 km (26,200 miles). In the special case of ...

A geosynchronous satellite is a satellite with an Earth-centred orbit that takes the same amount of time as one rotation of the Earth, roughly 24 hours. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good ...

“We have plans to improve orbit altitudes and reach 36,000km above the earth with the help of our scientists in the Guards and Defense Ministry,” Second Brigadier General Ali Jafarabadi, commander of ...

Three’s a charm, they say. On Monday, Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) met success with its third attempt at launching the SES-8 satellite into geosynchronous orbit. At 5:41 PM EST, the Orbital ...

The Global Space and Satellite Forum in Abu Dhabi has heard how US-based ViviSat plans to extend the life of geosynchronous satellites that are running out of fuel with its Mission Extension Vehicle ...

A small asteroid came within a cosmic hairbreadth of the ring of communications satellites circling the Earth in geosynchronous orbit this week. Passing by our planet at an altitude of about 35,000 km ...