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China’s moon programme: 3 satellites enter lunar orbit, fate of 2 that fell short isn’t clear
27 Mar 2024 06:39 GMT
… Queqiao-2 communication relay satellite, launched from Wenchang Satellite Launch Centre in … -L – a third satellite placed into low-Earth orbit last month – to … .
“Getting the objects into a high-Earth orbit and raising the perigee as …
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China launches second batch of Yunhai-2 satellites
21 Mar 2024 14:11 GMT
… of six Yunhai-2 satellites put into orbit by a Long March … primarily for deploying multiple satellites into different orbits, according to the Shanghai … launch in a highly-elliptical high Earth orbit. Orbital data, from March 15, has …
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China launches Queqiao-2 relay satellite to support moon missions
20 Mar 2024 01:35 GMT
… relay satellite remains operational in a halo orbit around … verification.
Tests will include satellite-to-ground laser ranging … and inter-satellite microwave ranging methods. The satellites are a … be in a very high high Earth orbit (HEO), someway short …
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Turion Space closing in on initial SSA service from first satellite
18 Mar 2024 01:36 GMT
… also still calibrating the satellite’s payload and … space imagery provider HEO (High Earth Orbit) supplied the imager and … orbit demo in 2025 and have three to four SSA-focused satellites … develop data-collecting and satellite-servicing technologies.
Alongside …
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China appears to be trying to save stricken spacecraft from lunar limbo
28 Mar 2024 21:44 GMT
… 132,577-kilometer, highly-elliptical, high Earth orbit. This has since been raised … communicate from distant retrograde orbit with another satellite, named DRO-L, in … when the satellite or satellites enter their original planned lunar orbit. The closed …
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China launches first high orbit internet satellite
29 Feb 2024 16:37 GMT
… undisclosed payload to be High orbit satellite internet-01 (Weixing Hulianwan Gaogui … high orbit refers to orbits above low Earth orbit, rather than specifically to high Earth orbit … weixing 01 xing), a high orbit satellite for internet delivery, to …
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The companies eyeing very high-Earth orbit
13 Nov 2023 18:55 GMT
As low-Earth orbits get increasingly crowded, businesses and governments are looking up. At the same time, the race to establish an outpost on the Moon is speeding up. Together, they represent a rapidly emerging new headache for space traffic control.
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How low Earth orbit satellite networks improve internet access
25 Sep 2023 17:14 GMT
… resort. Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites promise to change that … to the equator.
High Earth orbit (HEO) satellites go around the Earth … ground. Medium Earth orbit (MEO) satellites revolve anywhere below HEO … current GPS system. LEO satellites orbit at or below 1 …
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Texas A&M Joins Multimillion-dollar Moon Orbit Tracking Project
23 Oct 2023 22:30 GMT
… research project to track objects orbiting the moon. The Air … objects like satellites, asteroids and debris in low Earth orbit. This … to expand this ability to high Earth orbits.
“This is an exciting … , tracking objects in higher orbit is critical. The systems …
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Startup GuardianSat gets research grant for satellite self-defense technology
12 Oct 2023 18:05 GMT
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“Our patented solution is for high Earth-orbiting satellites,” said Huey Wyche, GuardianSat’s … — called the Autonomous Satellite Orbital Debris Avoidance System — includes satellite control systems, sensor …