After our recent posts on rainbow plane offsets and the list of imaging satellites we thought it would be interesting to see what a sun-synchronous orbit actually looks like in Google Earth. We have ...

In yesterday’s post we suggested that the reason for the near polar orbit of most imaging satellites was to improve coverage. After a bit more research it turns out to be more interesting than that.

Arianespace’s Ariane 5 launcher once again demonstrated its operational maturity and accuracy today by placing a seven-satellite payload into Sun-synchronous orbit. Drawing of the Ariane 5 payload ...

SAN DIEGO — Orbital Sciences Corp. expects to have U.S. government approval within about a year for using its Antares rocket to launch payloads to sun-synchronous orbit from NASA’s Wallops Flight ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been quoted by state media as saying that the country will launch a number of reconnaissance satellites in coming years to provide its forced with real-time ...