Orbit

Washington, June 23 (ANI): NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has successfully entered orbit around the moon after a four and a half day journey from the Earth....

Washington, June 10 (ANI): Astronomers have found that stars of a recently discovered type, dubbed 'ultracool subdwarfs', take some pretty wild rides as they orbit around the Milky Way, following paths that are very different from those of typical stars....

London, Mar 27 (ANI): A team of Indian military boffins has been tasked with a particularly tricky mission: to develop a curry to be consumed by astronauts in space....

Paris, March 21 (ANI): The European Space Agency's GOCE satellite has completed its early orbit phase....

Washington, Feb 4 (ANI): A new study has suggested that the polar-layered deposits on Mars may bear an imprint of variations in the Red Planet's orbit. ...

Beijing, Oct 31: China is to build a new family of rocket launchers designed to send space stations or heavyweight satellites into orbit, state media reported today, in the latest expansion of its space programme. The Long March 5 carrier ...

Kourou (French Guiana), Oct 6: An Ariane-5 rocket blasted off from French Guiana putting into orbit two telecommunications satellites -- both built by US satellite manufacturer Orbital Sciences Corp., witnesses at the launch site said. The rocket was launched yesterday ...

Cape Canaveral (Fla)., July 24: A spacewalking NASA astronaut pitched two large pieces of obsolete equipment off the International Space Station and into orbit today. A 1,400-pound, refrigerator-sized reservoir that contains ammonia was cast overboard during ...

Cape Canaveral (Fla), June 7: NASA is set to launch another component of the International Space Station into orbit tomorrow, three months behind schedule but in compliance with more rigorous safety standards imposed after the space shuttle Columbia ...

Bangalore, Mar 14: Indian communication satellite INSAT 4B was today manoeuvred to move close to the geosynchronous orbit by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) during the second orbit raising operations.The satellite, which was in fine health, was commanded ...

Tehran, Feb 25:  Iran has launched a sub-orbital rocket for scientific research not a missile capable of reaching space as earlier reported, an aerospace official told an Iranian news agency today.Ali Akbar Golrou, the executive deputy of Iran's aerospace ...