UPDATE- Orbital weirdness is normal. The drives are not activated and the Semi-Major Axis charting is what matters with orbit altitude. The velocity has not changed since I started looking at the ...

A 128-minute orbit, according to Kepler's third law, works out to a semi-major axis of 8,413 km (5,228 mi). Such an object with less than 0.25 eccentricity (a roughly circular orbit), therefore ...

IVO is waiting on Rogue Systems. UPDATE: We need to track the semi-major axis increasing for the evidence that the satellite is increasing its orbit and the thrusters are working. The orbits seemed ...

A minor shift in the outer planet’s orbit could eventually cause the ... equivalent to 4.5 million kilometres in Neptune’s semi-major axis – could spread to Earth and Mars in just 20 million ...

SAN FRANCISCO – French startup Exotrail announced Jan. 12 that its miniature Hall-effect thruster ignited in orbit, and propelled a NanoAvionics R2 cubesat to change its semi-major axis by 700 ...

It explains how the Moon's orbit, influenced by the Earth's movement and tilt, affects distance calculations for lunar missions. The presentation highlights the challenges of reaching the Moon ...