SpaceX launch 50 Starlink internet satellites and landed the returning rocket on a ship at sea (Feb. 25). A two-stage Falcon 9 rocket topped with 50 Starlink internet spacecraft lifted off from...
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The head of Russia’s space agency warned Thursday (Feb. 24) that new sanctions imposed on his country could have dire consequences for the International Space Station program. “Do you want to destroy...
The James Webb Space Telescope key pointing instrument fixed on to a star for the first time, two space agencies reported. The Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS), a contribution from Honeywell on behalf of the Canadian Space Agency...
“Optical lattice atomic clock are already the best clocks in the world, and here we get this level of performance that no one has seen before,” Shimon Kolkowitz, a University of Wisconsin-Madison physics professor and...
The China National Space Administration is preparing to launch two new space station modules, named Wentian and Mengtian, on separate Long March 5B rockets in the coming months. Preparations for both...
The James Webb Telescope launched on Dec. 25 and has spent its time in space so far executing a complicated sequence of deployments to unfold the telescope to its final configuration. On Thursday (Jan. 6), the...
James Webb Telescope has been in the process of cooling down and aligning its mirror segments since February 2, after reaching its orbital point beyond the moon on January 24. The James Webb Telescope launched to space on...
The team behind NASA’s James Webb Telescope released some of the first images from the much-anticipated observatory on Friday (Feb. 11). The main photo, which doesn’t even hint at the power James Webb...