Researchers at the Ted and Karyn Hume Center for National Security and Technology are preparing to send an amateur radio transponder into a geosynchronous orbit in 2017. "Seven days a week, 24 hours a ...

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 ...

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 small asteroid came within a cosmic hairbreadth of the ring of communications satellites circling the Earth in geosynchronous orbit this week. Passing by our planet at an altitude of about 35,000 km ...

The 1st Space Operations Squadron has upgraded the Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program's ground system. (U.S. Air Force) The 1st Space Operations Squadron recently completed a major ...

CENTENNIAL, Colo., April 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- True Anomaly Inc., the technology company developing advanced hardware and software systems to ensure the sustainable security of space, today ...

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).

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 ...