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Europe’s spaceport, flagship launcher ready for historic Webb mission
Read more →: Europe’s spaceport, flagship launcher ready for historic Webb missionAn Ariane 5 rocket reaches the ELA-3 launch zone Thursday at the Guiana Space Center, the final port…
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Video: Keith Parrish, Webb’s commissioning manager, talks through telescope deployments
Read more →: Video: Keith Parrish, Webb’s commissioning manager, talks through telescope deploymentsSpaceflight Now’s Editor, Stephen Clark, speaks with NASA’s Keith Parrish, the commissioning manager for the Webb Space Telescope.…
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Webb’s fate hinges on high-risk sunshade, mirror deployments
Read more →: Webb’s fate hinges on high-risk sunshade, mirror deploymentsSTORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION If you want to see the faint, stretched-out light from the…
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High cost, high risk, high hopes: There’s a lot riding on the $10B James Webb Space Telescope’s launch
Read more →: High cost, high risk, high hopes: There’s a lot riding on the $10B James Webb Space Telescope’s launchAn Ariane 5 rocket is set to launch NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. (NASA Photo / Bill Ingalls)…
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China sends two new Shiyan satellites into space
Read more →: China sends two new Shiyan satellites into spaceChina launched a Long March-7A rocket to place two satellites in space on Thursday. The rocket blasted off…
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Video: John Grunsfeld, astronaut and former NASA science chief, talks Webb
Read more →: Video: John Grunsfeld, astronaut and former NASA science chief, talks WebbSpaceflight Now’s Stephen Clark speaks to astronaut, astronomer and former NASA science head, John Grunsfeld about the upcoming…
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Webb telescope is a ‘time machine’ for astronomers to see the cosmic dawn
Read more →: Webb telescope is a ‘time machine’ for astronomers to see the cosmic dawnThe James Webb Space Telescope inside Northrop Grumman’s factory in Redondo Beach, California. Credit: Northrop Grumman The James…
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Webb will take next leap in search for habitable worlds
Read more →: Webb will take next leap in search for habitable worldsArtist’s concept of the James Webb Space Telescope in its deployed configuration. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab Beginning next year,…
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Live coverage: Ariane 5 rocket reaches launch pad with Webb telescope
Read more →: Live coverage: Ariane 5 rocket reaches launch pad with Webb telescopeLive coverage of the preparations for launch of an Ariane 5 rocket with the James Webb Space Telescope.…
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China’s Fengyun meteorological satellites serve users in 121 countries and regions
Read more →: China’s Fengyun meteorological satellites serve users in 121 countries and regionsChina’s Fengyun meteorological satellite family is providing services for users in 121 countries and regions around the world,…
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New technologies make Chinese astronauts’ in-orbit lives easier
Read more →: New technologies make Chinese astronauts’ in-orbit lives easierChinese astronauts live and work more conveniently and comfortably in orbit with the application of advanced information technology,…
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Crypto ambassador says he won Blue Origin’s $28M auction and is buying five more tickets to space
Read more →: Crypto ambassador says he won Blue Origin’s $28M auction and is buying five more tickets to spaceA digital rendering shows crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun in a spacesuit. (Justin Sun via Twitter) The winner of…