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The New Ariane 6 Heavy Lift Rocket is Finally on the Launch Pad, But Won’t Liftoff Until Late 2023
A prototype of ESA’s new heavy lift rocket is now fully assembled and sitting on the launchpad at Europe’s Spaceport…
Webb Telescope Officially Cleared for Launch on December 25
UPDATE: Shortly after publication of this article, Arianespace announced the launch for JWST has been delayed until December 25: "Due…
I Could Look at James Webb Unboxing Pictures all Day
Crews at the Guyanese Space Center recently "unboxed" the James Webb Space Telescope and are now getting it ready for…
Webb’s Testing is Complete. Now it Begins the Journey to the Launch Site.
Finally, it’s starting to get real for the James Webb Space Telescope. Engineers are now preparing the long-awaited landmark telescope…
Another Delay for Webb, But This Time it’s Because of the Rocket, Not the Telescope
Officials from NASA and ESA this acknowledged the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope will very likely be delayed…
NASA’s Webb Space Telescope Launch Delayed to 2019
The most powerful space telescope ever built will have to wait on the ground for a few more months into…
Sunshield Layers Installed on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope as Mirror Cryo Cooling Testing Commences
The complex multilayered sunshield that will protect the delicate optics and state of the art infrared science instruments of NASA’s…
James Webb Space Telescope’s Pathfinder Mirror Backplane Arrives at NASA Goddard for Critical Assembly Testing
The central piece of the “pathfinder” backplane that will hold all the mirrors for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)…
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Coma Dust Collection Science starts for Rosetta at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
With the historic arrival of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft at destination Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko flawlessly accomplished on August…
What’s Ahead for Rosetta – ‘Finding a Landing Strip’ on Bizarre Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Where would you land here? Newly released NAVCAM image taken by Rosetta on 5 August 2014 from a distance of…