The fifth and sixth Galileo satellites have been in a safe state since August 28, under control from ESA’s center in Darmstadt, Germany, despite having been released on August 22 into lower and ...

Aerobraking plan for MAVEN. (left) Current MAVEN orbit around Mars: 6,200 kilometers (~3,850 miles) at highest altitude, and an orbit period of about 4.5 hours. (center) Aerobraking process: MAVEN ...

In the early morning of November 24, 2020, the Chang'E 5 lunar probe was launched from the Wenchang Space Launch Center and successfully executed a 23-day journey of lunar sample return (LSR) mission.

Space logistics and orbital transportation company D-Orbit launched Guardian, the 10th commercial mission of their proprietary orbital transfer vehicle (OTV) ION Satellite Carrier (ION). The OTV ...

SpaceX today was granted permission to use a lower orbit for Starlink satellites, as regulators agreed with SpaceX that the change will improve broadband speed and latency while making it easier to ...

The criteria (design constraints) used for the search of the launch windows included minimum delta-V budget, solar elevation of 30°–50° during the lunar surface operation, and reentry flight range of ...