The company is developing a space-based power plant to harvest 24/7 solar energy from the Molniya orbit. In an interview with Interesting Engineering, former SpaceX rocket engineer and Virtus ...

1 satellite, aboard a Soyuz-2-1b/Fregat rocket, lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 12:55 local time (06:55 UTC) on Sunday bound for an elliptical Molniya orbit. The Arktika (Арктика ...

4 satellite into an elliptical Molniya orbit. A successful mission was declared at around 13:00 UTC. Friday’s launch carried the fourth Tundra satellite into orbit. Tundra spacecraft ...

The interesting properties of orbits with critical inclination (Molniya orbit), sun-synchronous orbits, frozen orbits, and the long-term coupling between sun-moon attractions and Earth oblateness ...

It is reported that the first Arktika-M hydro-meteorology satellite was pun into a Molniya-type highly elliptical orbit in February, 2021 TASS, October 24. Roscosmos plans to put by 2026 nine ...