SuperSharp Space Systems Ltd. (SuperSharp), a University of Cambridge spinoff, earlier this month received a £5 million award from the UK Space Agency—these funds will enable an on-orbit demonstration of […]
Space Telescope
SpaceX sends off NROL-57 on secret mission and another NROL-69 launch on Monday
On a very foggy Thursday night beside the ocean on March 20 at 11:49 p.m. PT, Falcon 9 launched the NROL-57 mission from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at […]
25 images to celebrate NASA’s Chandra 25th anniversary
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of its launch, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory is releasing 25 never-before-seen views of a wide range of cosmic objects. These images, which all include data […]
BAE Systems selected to research optical system for NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory
BAE Systems and strategic partners L3Harris Technologies and the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) have been selected as one of three teams to mature technologies in support of NASA’s Habitable […]
L3Harris team aligns 10 mirrors for NASA’s Roman telescope
In a feat of precision engineering, L3Harris demonstrated the telescope’s ability to capture crisp images from deep space. When it launches by 2027, the NASA Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope […]
New NASA mission to study ultraviolet sky, stars, stellar explosions
As NASA explores the unknown in air and space, a new mission to survey ultraviolet light across the entire sky will provide the agency with more insight into how galaxies […]
Highest performance optical filters developed for ESA’s Athena mission
A GSTP activity led by Ametek in Finland has built high-performance optical filters representative of those that will be used by one of ESA’s biggest upcoming missions. For the Advanced Telescope […]
UPDATE: SpaceX successfully launches the Korea 425 top secret mission with 25 smallsats on board
UPDATE: On a picture perfect Friday, December 1 at 10:19 a.m. PT, Falcon 9 launched the Korea 425 mission to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at […]
SpaceX’s Friday Korea 425 mission launch includes top secret reconnaissance smallsats for APA
SpaceX is targeting Friday, December 1 at 10:19 a.m. PT for a Falcon 9 launch of the Korea 425 mission to LEO from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at […]
SpaceX launches ESA and NASA’s Euclid on a mission to shed light on dark energy
On Saturday, July 1 at 11:12 a.m. ET, SpaceX launched the ESA Euclid mission to a Sun-Earth L2 transfer orbit, also known as the Sun-Earth Lagrange point 2, from Space […]