Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory creates a cislunar orbit map to help predict satellite stability and improve collision avoidance in increasingly crowded Earth orbits.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft has begun the process of transferring to its fourth and final mapping orbit, as it continues its mission around the dwarf planet Ceres. Dawn initially made orbit around Ceres on ...

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reached the red planet in March 2006, and entered into a highly elliptical orbit– the type of orbit easiest to achieve in that it requires the least amount of fuel ...

Commercial space situational awareness provider LeoLabs is to expand its ground-radar network to track smaller objects in low Earth orbit (LEO) after raising an additional $13 million in funding. The ...

NASA's Dawn spacecraft has completed a gentle spiral into its new science orbit for an even closer view of the giant asteroid Vesta. Dawn began sending science data on Sept. 29 from this new orbit, ...

Well, this is something I’ve been waiting for a very, very long time: The Dawn spacecraft is in its final, lowest mapping orbit of the protoplanet Ceres, and is now returning the highest-resolution ...