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The alignment of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is finished, and it's ready to capture images with its four powerful onboard science instruments. Webb will now move to a final series of preparations, known as science instrument…

An Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) launched by NASA on 9 December 2021 is a space-based observatory. Developed with the Italian Space Agency (ASI), it has three identical telescopes, each with an imaging X-ray detector sensitive…

NASA's Perseverance mission is taking the first-ever recordings of the soundscape on Mars. Perseverance recorded the first sounds from Mars on February 19, 2021, the day after its arrival. The result? Mars is quiet, and natural sound…

On March 1, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will launch GOES-T, the third satellite in the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites R series, and you can watch it on NASA TV. Part of a series of…

By Greg Rankin When it comes to mmWave systems, science can only progress as far as compatible hardware will allow. This portion of the electromagnetic spectrum will unlock enormous potential for design engineers with the promise of…

Universities Space Research Association (USRA) announced the beginning of operations for phase-2 of DARPA's Optimization with Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum devices (ONISQ) program. Phase 1 launched in 2020, and USRA was selected to lead…

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is on its way, completing the intricate process of unfolding as it travels. The telescope’s sun shield and primary mirror were folded origami-style to fit into the Ariane rocket, its taxi into space. The…

In a joint effort between the Italian Space Agency and NASA, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) launched on December 9th. The observatory is NASA's first mission dedicated to measuring the polarization of X-rays from extreme…

NASA wants young engineers to design a robot for excavation on the Moon. The Lunabotics Junior Contest, open to K-12 students in U.S. public and private schools (and home-schoolers), is a collaboration between NASA and Future Engineers. The…

Voyager Space is buying Valley Tech Systems. Voyager's acquisition is in. line with expanding its focus to further support DoD missions for a safe operating environment for commercial space. ISR technologies are a first line of defense for…