Long-term, Impulse will offer services for all classes of payloads to distant destinations such as Geostationary Equatorial Orbit (GEO), the Moon, and Mars. For more information, ...

A satellite in an equatorial orbit is at 0 degrees inclination; a satellite in a sun-synchronous orbit (SSO) is slightly higher than 90 degrees; and a mid-inclination orbit is around 45 degrees.

SpaceX made history on April 1 with its private Fram2 mission. For the first time ever, a crew orbited the Earth’s poles. Until that point, no humans had ever flown above the poles in a spacecraft.

Redondo Beach-based Impulse Space has been selected by SpaceWERX, sponsored by U.S. Space Force (USSF) Space Systems Command's (SSC) Space Safari Office, for a Strategic Funding Increase (STRATFI ...

That's because COSI will operate in an unusual orbit about 340 miles ... The Falcon 9 is the only rocket certified by NASA that can launch a satellite with the mass of COSI into its equatorial orbit.

Chinese rocket breaks apart in low-Earth orbit, creating a cloud of space debris, US Space Command says. Story by Ashley Strickland, CNN • 7mo. Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter.

Because the Chinese satellites were delivered into orbit around Earth’s poles, rather than an equatorial orbit, they will “pack a real punch with other objects not in polar orbit” like two ...

The Orbit Fab refueling demonstration mission will launch in mid-2025 and will deliver fuel to the US Space Force under a contract with the DIU (Defense Innovation Unit). About Impulse Space ...