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 ...

First, Russia has now joined the fray with the recent arrival of its own suspected inspector (or attack) satellite in GEO. Second, the US Space Force is poised to order more—perhaps many ...

The OEO satellite promises a geosynchronous orbit around the equator, low latency, and a drastic cut in costs—using readily available technology. Thousands of satellites have been deployed during ...

For many college students, satellites are faint dots crossing the sky on clear nights. These objects are background details from science fiction to reality, like GPS, satellite radio, and WiFi. For ...

A geosynchronous orbit (sometimes abbreviated GSO) is an Earth-centered orbit with an orbital period that matches Earth's rotation on its axis, 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds (one sidereal day).

United Launch Alliance's (ULA) Vulcan Centaur successfully completed its debut national security mission (USSF-106) for the U.S. Space Force, deploying the Navigation Technology Satellite-3 (NTS-3) to ...

Viasat VSAT shares climbed on Thursday after the satellite communications company announced it had secured a prime contract from the US Space Force to build and launch satellites for the Protected ...

Putting tiny satellites in far-off GEO orbit is a thing now, and Viasat will help build them.

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