BEIJING, April 27 (Xinhua) --China's Einstein Probe (EP) astronomical satellite, sent into space in January this year, has captured its first in-orbit detection images, which were presented at a parallel forum of the 2024 Zhongguancun Forum in Beijing on Saturday. Inspired by the functions o...
TEHRAN, Feb. 29 (Xinhua) -- Iran successfully put a domestically developed satellite, Pars-1, into a 500-km orbit on Thursday via a Soyuz rocket launch in eastern Russia, state media reported. The 134-kg satellite, built by the Iranian Space Research Institute, is designed for remote-sensi...
Since these initial efforts, more than 5,000 Earth satellites have been orbited by more than 70 different nations. As of 2017, more than 2,000 satellites are in orbit, the majority being fromRussiaor the United States. The satellites vary widely in size and design, ranging from small “pi...
Infrared Astronomical SatelliteArtist's rendition of the Infrared Astronomical Satellite in orbit. astronomy Print Also known as: IRAS Written by David M. Harland Space historian and freelance writer, Glasgow, Scotland. Author ofExploring the Moon: The Apollo Expeditions; Jupiter Odyssey: The Story of...
OREKIT is a free low level space dynamics library written in Java. Please visit our Gitlab instance for issues and contributions: https://gitlab.orekit.org java library space astrodynamics satellite-prediction attitude spaceflight orbital-mechanics orbit-determination satellite-orbit orbit-propagation spac...
One satellite is in orbit now, but the company plans to launch two more aboard SpaceX in the near future. Government contracts, including one with the U.S. Navy, will soon bring several more to the fleet. Above: The Aksum Airport was heavily damaged during the Ethiopian Tigray conflict. ...
This special issue is open to all scientists who may have the latest results and developments in BDS/GNSS+, including constellation, signal, orbit, receiver and new scientific applications. GNSS PPP and PPP-RTK This special issue is mainly for the new theory, method and application in real-tim...
piece of space junk up close allows Astroscale to fully understand its condition and movement prior to removing it. The gathered data will enable a future mission to make a safe approach, grab it with robotic arms, and carry it out of orbit, where it will burn up in Earth’s atmosphere....