Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Russian satellite once used to inspect other spacecraft appears to have disintegrated in a graveyard orbit high above the Earth, ...

Is the “graveyard orbit” still a safe parking spot to have spacecraft that will never take off again? The disintegration of the Russian Luch/Olymp satellite has moved that question to the fringes of ...

Eutelsat’s 139 West A has been retired to a ‘graveyard’ orbit. The satellite provided Eutelsat with an impressive 22 years of service despite its initial ...