NASA’s GOES satellites have provided 50 years of continuous geostationary monitoring, delivering real-time weather, environmental hazard, and space weather data to support forecasts, emergency ...

Artistic impression of European Data Relay Satellite (EDRS) system (not to scale). These satellites work in GEO and relay data to and from non-GEO satellites, spacecraft, and stations that aren’t ...

On July 7, 2024, NOAA's GOES-U executed its final engine burn, placing the satellite in geostationary orbit 22,236 miles above Earth's equator. Upon reaching this milestone, GOES-U was renamed GOES-19 ...

Liftoff of the "Commercial GTO-1" mission occurred at 1:04 a.m. EDT on Sunday morning (July 13). When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

The moon is a popular target for ham radio operators to bounce signals since it’s fairly large and follows a predictable path. There are some downsides, though; it’s not always visible from the same ...

SpaceX has successfully completed its first launch of a commercial satellite into geostationary transfer orbit (GTO). This marks the seventh ever flight of the SpaceX Falcon launch system, and the ...

For decades, Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) operators were in the communications catbird’s seat 22,000 miles above the Earth, but the arrival of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) networks, like Elon Musk’s ...

LYON, France—Eutelsat 172B, the first European-built all-electric satellite, has reached geostationary orbit in just more than four months, allowing manufacturer Airbus and operator Eutelsat to claim ...

4iG Space and Defence Technologies and France-based Eutelsat have signed a Geostationary Orbit and Frequency Licence Agreement securing the orbital position and associated frequency rights for HUGEO, ...

Radio astronomy has a pollution problem. Satellites thousands of kilometers overhead, designed to broadcast communications or ...

China is currently conducting a very important test in space: it is trying to refuel a satellite while it is still orbiting Earth. This kind of operation is called orbital refueling, and it could help ...

SEONGNAM, South Korea--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CADvizor has been successfully adopted as the wiring harness design CAD tool for the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI)’s Geostationary Earth Orbit Korea ...