MILAN – Italian space logistics company D-Orbit announced a 119.6 million euro ($131 million) contract with the European Space Agency for a spacecraft servicing vehicle. Under the contract ...

Seated, left to right, are D-Orbit CEO Luca Rossettini and ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher signing an agreement for Europe's first life extension mission for a satellite in geostationary orbit.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed a €119mn contract with Italian scaleup D-Orbit for its first in-orbit servicing mission, RISE. Scheduled for launch in 2028, RISE will attempt to ...

Officials from D-Orbit and ESA present signed contracts for the mission on Oct. 14 at IAC 2024. Credit: ESA The European Space Agency (ESA) and Italian space tug startup D-Orbit are planning on ...

Monopoles of orbital angular momentum (OAM) are a tantalizing prospect for orbitronics because OAM is uniform in all directions. This would mean that information flows could be generated in any ...

STORY: Earth's orbit is crowded with satellites and cluttered with an estimated 7,700 tons of space junk. :: D-Orbit Italian firm D-Orbit says their innovative satellite vehicle “GEA” can help ...

STORY: Earth's orbit is crowded with satellites and cluttered with an estimated 7,700 tons of space junk. :: D-Orbit Italian firm D-Orbit says their innovative satellite vehicle “GEA” can help... by ...

to personally sign a new €119-million contract commissioning the Italian spacecraft designer D-Orbit to dock with a colossal satellite in geostationary orbit - 35,000 kilometers above the Earth ...

not only knocked the asteroid moon Dimorphos out of its natural orbit, but also physically altered it's shape. Two years ago, NASA intentionally crashed its DART spacecraft into the small asteroid ...

Orbit Fab, a specialist in spacecraft refuelling systems, has signed Memorandums of Understanding with four companies in the space sector. The strategic collaborations are with D-Orbit, DEIMOS, ...

When a planet has perfect alignment between the axis it orbits on and the rotational axis, the amount of sunlight it receives is fixed as it orbits around the sun—assuming its orbital shape is a ...