14 August 2016
Sixth successful landing for Space X rocket
... onto a floating drone ship in the early hours of this morning (14th August) after delivering a payload into geostationary transfer orbit (GTO). This makes it the fourth triumphant time that SpaceX has landed the first stage of its rocket...
October 2019
Electric orbit raising and space weather
... from a key characteristic of the two trajectories which is illustrated in Figure 1, namely the apogee (maximum altitude) of the geostationary transfer orbit (GTO), into which the satellite is placed following separation from the launch vehicle (this...
18 March 2020
Failure of China's Long March 7A launch could impact major missions
...was expected to place a classified satellite named XJY 6 or ‘new technology verification satellite-6” into an elliptical, geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) but was unable to deliver the secret payload. Details of the launch had already been shrouded...
31 March 2017
Success for SpaceX's first 'flight-proven' launch
... the company is the first to use a ‘flight-proven’ rocket to deliver SES’s commercial communications satellite to a Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO). The SES-10 mission marked an historic milestone as SpaceX seeks to prove that a rapid reusability...
