The James Webb Space Telescope has pulled back the curtain on a region of our galaxy where massive stars are being born, capturing images of stellar infants that no previous instrument could see. The new observations of W51, one of the Milky Way’s most active star-forming regions, reveal young, high-mass stars still wrapped in the […]

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Six days from now, a spacecraft carrying four instruments will lift off from French Guiana on a mission to photograph something no human has ever seen directly: the collision between the solar wind and Earth’s magnetic shield. The Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer, known as SMILE, is a joint effort between the European Space […]

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NASA modified operations of an astrophysics spacecraft in a decaying orbit to buy more time for a mission later this year that will attempt to raise its orbit.

GP Sandhoo: ‘From an optical communications terminal perspective, we’re not there yet on how many we need’

The ‘unpriced change order’ supports satellite launches while officials reassess long-delayed ground system

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