After abruptly calling off its first launch attempt in the early hours of Monday morning, Blue Origin notched a historic ...

The term "graveyard orbit" refers to a region at an even higher altitude in the sky where old space debris is moved so that ...

and in geosynchronous orbit — where some of the most advanced and expensive satellites operate — they expend the last of their fuel moving to a so-called graveyard orbit, an outer orbit where ...

When a satellite is near end of life, the last bit of fuel is used to push it into graveyard orbit. This doesn’t always work, however, and when the light is just right, a chemical reaction makes ...

The officials told New York Times that the satellite, currently in a high-radiation graveyard orbit, may be carrying a dummy warhead and testing components for a device that could destroy numerous ...