NASA's Dawn spacecraft has begun the process of transferring to its fourth and final mapping orbit, as it continues its mission around the dwarf planet Ceres. Dawn initially made orbit around Ceres on ...

Having already provided us with numerous insights into the nature of the dwarf planet Ceres, NASA's Dawn spacecraft is ready to move into a new, lower mapping orbit, which will provide the most ...

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Earth has a single natural satellite—our Moon. But tens of thousands of artificial satellites have been sent into orbit. And most of them remain, revolving around Earth at various altitudes. Nearly ...

Long before NASA reached the moon, the U.S. civilian space agency's managers and engineers began to look at ways of using Apollo lunar hardware in non-lunar and advanced lunar missions. In April 1963, ...

Commercial space situational awareness provider LeoLabs is to expand its ground-radar network to track smaller objects in low Earth orbit (LEO) after raising an additional $13 million in funding. The ...

Here's a screen shot from the Space Regulatory and Sustainability Platform developed by LeoLabs to help the New Zealand Space Agency track and monitor satellites in low Earth orbit. Credit: LeoLabs ...

Space has never been so crowded. As of March 2025, there were more than 14,000 individual satellites in orbit, in addition to 27,000 tracked objects counting inactive satellites, rocket stages and ...

Orbit GeoSpatial Technologies will showcase Orbit UAS Mapping Pro, version 11.0, at InterGeo, October 7-9 in Berlin. “Orbit’s UAS Mapping Pro 11.0 is an impressive product for all professional UAV ...

The first major step toward NASA's return of a spacecraft to an orbit around Mars was achieved late Thursday night, Jan. 4, when the Mars Odyssey spacecraft arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in ...

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reached the red planet in March 2006, and entered into a highly elliptical orbit– the type of orbit easiest to achieve in that it requires the least amount of fuel ...