The payload Russia's military chose to launch on the Angara A5 is unusual. The rocket deployed its primary passenger, Kosmos ...

On October 4, 1957, Earth received its first artificial satellite companion, Sputnik 1. ... 1957, after the satellite completed 326 orbits. Even after the batteries failed, ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has released ' Satellites Watching the Earth, ' which allows you to check the positions and orbits of operational satellites in real time. You can ...

European satellites launched to create artificial solar eclipses in a tech demo The $210 million mission, dubbed Proba-3, is aiming for at least 1,000 hours of “on demand” totality during its ...

The moon partially covers the sun during a total solar eclipse, as seen from Eagle Pass, Texas, April 8, 2024. A pair of European satellites rocketed into orbit Dec. 5, 2024 on the first mission ...

This method of blocking out the sun means that only certain orbits will work, though. Many missions sit in low-Earth orbit, where objects like the International Space Station or the Hubble Space ...