After a 24-hour rain delay, the H-IIA rocket launched from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan’s Osumi Islands at 6:20 a.m. local time. The Himawari 9 satellite is the second of two third ...

Tom Sachs is art's astro-conceptualist, a Nasa obsessive who has devised and equipped his own bricolage space programme. His New York studio is both rocket workshop and mission control, stitching ...