The best space telescope you never heard of just shut down
On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...
NASA’s Heat-Seeking Space Telescope Is Almost Ready to Spot Killer Asteroids
NASA’s NEO Surveyor, a spacecraft specifically designed to detect asteroids that could threaten Earth, is on track for a 2027 ...
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Apollo: The Alignment Optical Telescope
The Apollo program is a constant reminder that ... [Bill Hammack] elaborates on one such piece of engineering: The Alignment Optical Telescope. The telescope was used to find the position of ...
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NASA has made the first radio telescope observations on the moon
The Odysseus spacecraft made a rough landing on the moon last year, toppling over and rendering much of its equipment unusable, but an onboard NASA radio telescope called ROLSES-1  was able to make so ...
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Skylab at 50 – How the United States...Skylab at 50 – How the United States...Skylab at 50 – How the United States entered the space station...
The Apollo Telescope Mount contained instruments to study the Sun in detail, with the crew able to fine-tune the observations. A key objective achieved by the Skylab 2 mission was to record a ...
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Here's why we should put a gravitational wave observatory on the moon
Sending telescopes into space ... The LGWA's seismic observations will also illuminate the moon's geological processes. The LGWA mission is still being developed. Before it can be implemented ...
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NASA launches newest space telescope to seek life’s key ingredients
NASA’s newest space telescope, SPHEREx — designed to seek out the key ingredients for life in the Milky Way — and a sun-focused mission called ... create global, 3D observations of where ...
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WATCH: NASA and SpaceX launch SPHEREx observatory telescope, mission to study formation of galaxy
NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday ... The $488 million Spherex mission aims to explain how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years, and how the universe ...