If you're in search for an orbital sander, there's a good chance that you are trying to smooth out some wood. Though, the tool does a lot more than just that, and in the process becomes a ...

This centripetal force must be supplied by gravity which is also related to the radius of the orbit. So the trick is to find an orbital radius which works out to give a period of 24 hours. Can it be ...

Reflect Orbital plans to deploy 57 small satellites into low-Earth orbit. Each satellite will be outfitted with a 33-square-foot reflective Mylar mirror. These mirrors are designed to reflect ...

NASA aims to travel to the moon again—and beyond. Here’s a look at the 21st-century race to send humans into space. Private spaceflight is not a new concept. In the United States, commercial ...

Within just 12 hours, China successfully launched 18 communication satellites and a remote sensing satellite into their designated orbits, in two separate missions on Tuesday evening and Wednesday ...

In context: Boeing and NASA began developing the first Orbital Test Vehicles in the X-37 series in 1999, with the first X-37 drone entering service in 2010. Now managed by the US Air Force Space ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Toronto Raptors forward Scottie Barnes will miss at least three weeks because of a right orbital fracture, the team said Wednesday. Barnes was struck by Denver's Nikola Jokic ...

Its last launch—which carried the first 18 Qianfan satellites—broke up into a cloud suspected to number more than 700 pieces of orbital debris. SAST has so far not responded to requests for ...

The graph shows how the orbital speed of a planet changes with its distance from the Sun. Polar orbits take the satellites over the Earth’s poles. The satellites travel very close to the Earth ...