NASA confirms next Friday for Webb Space Telescope launch
NASA is shooting for next Friday—Christmas Eve—to launch its newest space telescope.
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Dec 17, 2021
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Creating exotic 'outer space' ice in the lab
The search for life beyond Earth typically focuses on first looking for water, the basis for life as we know it. Whether the water is a gas, liquid, or solid, its presence and composition can tell researchers a lot about ...
Space Exploration
Jun 2, 2021
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Virgin seeks to revive supersonic commercial flight—but faster
Space tourism company Virgin Galactic on Monday announced a partnership with engine-maker Rolls-Royce to build a supersonic commercial airplane that flies at three times the speed of sound.
Space Exploration
Aug 3, 2020
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China moves rocket into place for upcoming Mars mission
China has moved a rocket into position to launch a rover to Mars in one of three upcoming missions to the red planet, one from the U.S. and another by the United Arab Emirates.
Space Exploration
Jul 17, 2020
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Building NASA's Psyche: design done, now full speed ahead on hardware
Psyche, the NASA mission to explore a metal-rock asteroid of the same name, recently passed a crucial milestone that brings it closer to its August 2022 launch date. Now the mission is moving from planning and designing to ...
Space Exploration
Jul 7, 2020
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Launch is approaching for NASA's next Mars rover, Perseverance
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is just over a month from its July 20 targeted launch date. The rover's astrobiology mission will seek signs of past microscopic life on Mars, explore the geology of the Jezero Crater landing ...
Space Exploration
Jun 18, 2020
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Boeing's crew capsule declared ready for 1st space flight
Boeing's Starliner crew capsule finally has a launch date for its first test flight to the International Space Station.
Space Exploration
Dec 12, 2019
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Laser prototype for space-based gravitational wave detector
Researchers have announced a prototype for a laser at the heart of the first space-based gravitational wave observatory, known as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission. The team's new laser nearly meets the ...
Optics & Photonics
Sep 18, 2019
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Cheops passes final review before shipment to launch site
The Characterising Exoplanet Satellite, Cheops, has successfully passed the final analysis review for its launch on a Soyuz rocket from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
Space Exploration
Jul 30, 2019
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The mission of a lifetime: a drone on Titan in 2034 (Update)
Elizabeth Turtle was overjoyed when, on June 26, she received a call from NASA: her project to send a drone quadcopter to Titan, Saturn's largest moon, was given the green light, which came with a budget of nearly a billion ...
Space Exploration
Jul 4, 2019
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