A Farewell to Plutoshine

By David Dickinson - January 26, 2017 09:49 AM UTC | Planetary Science
Sometimes, its not the eye candy aspect of the image, but what it represents. A recent image of Pluto's large moon Charon courtesy of New Horizons caught our eye. Looking like something from the grainy era of the early Space Age, we see a crescent Charon, hanging against a starry background...
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NASA Webb Telescope Resumes Rigorous Vibration Qualification Tests

By ken-kremer - January 25, 2017 11:38 PM UTC | Telescopes
Engineers have resumed a series of critical and rigorous vibration qualification tests on NASA's mammoth James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, in Greenbelt, Maryland to confirm its safety, integrity and readiness for the unforgiving environment of space flight, after pausing due to a testing 'anomaly' detected in early December 2016.
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USAF Missile Defense SBIRS Observatory Streaks to Orbit during Spectacular Evening Blastoff

By ken-kremer - January 21, 2017 01:33 AM UTC | Space Exploration
CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL - A U.S. Air Force missile defense reconnaissance observatory that will track the telltale infrared signatures of incoming enemy missiles and is vital to America's national security blasted off in spectacular fashion off this evening, Jan. 20, 2017, as it streaked to orbit from the Florida Space Coast.
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