The Pentagon is testing a new way to acquire satellites. DIU would select vendors capable of developing and fielding a GEO reconnaissance system on commercial terms and timelines, demonstrating it ...

The Pentagon is looking for cheap commercial satellites that can maintain surveillance on other satellites in orbit, ...

A new Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) solicitation, published on Tuesday, Feb. 17, shows that ...

Under the new GHOST-R effort, the Defense Innovation Unit hopes to have a high-resolution bird operating on orbit within 24 months.

The Vulcan rocket leapt off its pad at 4:22 a.m. EST, lighting up the Florida coast before a problem inside one of its ...

ULA’s Vulcan launches Space Force mission; solid booster anomaly under investigation ULA’s Vulcan launches U.S. Space Force mission to geosynchronous orbit ...

A geosynchronous orbit (sometimes abbreviated GSO) is an Earth-centered orbit with an orbital period that matches Earth's rotation on its axis, 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds (one sidereal day).

Early this evening in Florida, space transport company SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket on a trajectory to place a satellite in geosynchronous orbit. The success comes on the third ...

For many college students, satellites are faint dots crossing the sky on clear nights. These objects are background details from science fiction to reality, like GPS, satellite radio, and WiFi. A NASA ...

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 ...