Orbit Of The Earth

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  Supercomputer Study Finds 97,000 Stable Orbits Between Earth and Moon

  Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory simulated one million potential satellite orbits between Earth and the Moon to assess long-term stability. Fewer than 10% remained stable over six years, highlighting the challenges of operating in cislunar space. Yet the results identified roughly 97,000 viable orbits, offering valuable options ...

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  NASA Shares Photo Of Dazzling Green Auroras Captured From Space Station

  According to NASA, auroras are produced when charged particles from the Sun collide with Earth's magnetic field and atmosphere.

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  India Gains In-Orbit Spying Capability, Can Now Snoop On Enemy Satellites

  In a significant milestone for India's growing private space sector, Ahmedabad-based Azista Industries Private Limited through its aerospace vertical has demonstrated a new indigenous capability to image objects in orbit from another satellite

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  Astronomers Find Planet Close To Solar System With Earth-Like Size And Orbit

  Researchers estimate that the planet has about a 50% chance of being in its star's Hoble zone.

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  Scientists Discover 'Potentially Habitable' Earth-Like Planet Candidate

  If confirmed, this exoplanet would be the only known rocky world in the habitable zone of a Sun-like star.

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  Sunita Williams Reveals Two Strangest Things She Saw In Space

  Sunita Williams, retired astronaut, reveals surprising sights from space, including numerous satellites and rare lightning energy captured from the ISS.

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  SpaceX Adds 29 More Starlink Satellites in Rapid Falcon 9 Launch From Florida

  SpaceX Falcon Rocket has launched 29 satellites into the Low Earth orbit, in turn, raising the number of its active satellites to 9,500. With this, the rocket marked its 24th safest flight.

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  Scientists Discover "Iron Bar" In Space That May Reveal Earth's Future

  The team said they plan to do further studies to find out what exactly this iron bar is, where it came from and what it indicates

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  Study Reveals Mars Has A Much Stronger Influence On Earth's Climate

  Previous research on deep-sea sediments had suggested that Mars might influence Earth's climate, but the magnitude of this influence had not been clearly established.

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  PSLV-C62 Failure Marks India’s First Space Launch Setback of 2026

  India experienced its first space launch failure of 2026 on January 12 when the PSLV-C62 mission malfunctioned during its third stage. A technical anomaly caused the rocket to deviate from its intended trajectory, preventing it from reaching orbital velocity. As a result, the EOS-N1 Earth observation satellite and 15 smaller companion satellites re...