Texas-based Firefly Aerospace has secured a new contract with the U.S. Department of Defense to support orbital missions using its Elytra Dawn spacecraft. The contract is part of the Sinequone Project ...

Orbit Fab, the developer of the RAFTI™ refueling port, announced the availability of the first on-orbit Hydrazine refueling service. Starting in 2025 Orbit Fab will deliver Hydrazine to satellites in ...

It's been decades since humanity first sent a satellite into orbit, and during all this time we kind of become experts at it. What we still haven't mastered yet is extending the life of these ...

Hundreds of military, government and commercial satellites reside today in geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO) some 22,000 miles (36,000 kilometers) above the Earth – a perch ideal for providing ...

Small geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO) satellites have been an increasingly discussed design trend in the industry, boasting the same regionalized scope as traditional GEO models at a price point ...

China is quietly rewriting the economics of spaceflight by proving that satellites do not have to be disposable hardware that dies when the fuel runs out. A new generation of Chinese spacecraft is ...

Geosynchronous Synthetic Aperture Radar (GEO SAR) systems represent a promising frontier in Earth observation technology, offering continuous monitoring of specified regions with exceptionally short ...