The International Space Station just dodged a piece of debris for the second time in less than a week. Russia's robotic ...
In the past, vehicles such as the European Space Agency's (ESA) Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) were also used to lift the ...
SpaceX first started launching its Starlink satellites in 2019 as a way to beam connectivity to remote areas or areas where ...
The satellites launching on Friday night are headed to Geostationary orbit − a stable and very high orbit, over 22,000 miles ...
However, only about half of those dents are caused by meteoroid strikes. At the ISS' altitude of between 230 and 285 miles (370 to 460 kilometers), half of the impacts are caused by space junk ...
Astronaut Don Pettit captured this image from the ISS, revealing two dwarf satellite galaxies above the horizon. Don Pettit/NASA Orbiting at an altitude of 250 miles (400 kilometers) above Earth ...
The International Space Station’s orbit is in LEO, at an altitude of approximately 250 miles.. ISS National Lab-sponsored ...
This isn’t the first time Schöfbänker managed to get shots of high-altitude orbital vehicles. Although both ISS and Starliner are public projects, glimpsing more secretive endeavors requires a bit ...