Driving a spacecraft around a planet isn’t anything like driving on a planet. A physicist explains orbital navigation.
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For 25 Years, People Have Been Living Continuously In Space – But What Happens Next?
Even without the ISS, some humans will stay off planet for the foreseeable future. There is no plan to stop the continuous ...
Finally, a promising upgrade to the antique space radio systems that make orbital data transfer so ridiculously slow. Terran Orbit has set a new record for transmitting at high-speed from space to ...
In the last episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (which you can watch online), the show was trying to make a case for dark matter. Here is what Neil DeGrasse Tyson said about orbiting objects. "In ...
Orbital mechanics can be a bit counter-intuitive. We have to slow down an orbiting space craft to convert kinetic energy for gravitational energy. The orbital altitude is raised at its highest point ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. This article is more than 4 years old. The Earth, moving in its orbit ...
Satellite operators previously had 25 years to de-orbit satellites as they reach end of life. Rules adopted by the FCC reduce this to just five years drew congressional criticism. The Federal ...
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