DARPA has a plan to keep geosynchronous satellites going for years beyond their expiration date. The agency aims to test it ...

This year, DARPA should finally realize its long-time ambition to service and even cannibalize satellites in geosynchronous ...

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 ...

First, Russia has now joined the fray with the recent arrival of its own suspected inspector (or attack) satellite in GEO.

A famously unlucky date is getting a cosmic twist. NASA says the asteroid Apophis will safely pass close to Earth on Friday, April 13, 2029, coming about 20,000 miles from the planet's surface. That ...

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 ...

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.

Flight connectivity specialist Anuvu is to gain access to high-throughput Ku-band capacity from Eutelsat’s 10B satellite.

DARPA is preparing to test one of the most ambitious orbital servicing missions ever attempted: a robotic spacecraft capable ...

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).