
@NASA_Landsat #Landsat9 mission draws one step closer to Sept 2021 launch, with successful design review completion of ESPA Flight System (EFS). […]
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![]() An artist’s impression of a supernova explosion. With the help of NASA’s Kepler space telescope, astronomers were able to observe for the first time the exact moment when the shockwave from a supernova reaches the surface of the progenitor star just before the latter explodes. Image Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser One of the most […] ![]() McCollister’s Transportation Group transported pre-flight Orion to various testing centers around the country and the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for assembly. Photo Credit: McCollister’s Transportation Group The “Journey to Mars” began when NASA’s Orion capsule lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex (SLC) -37B atop a roaring Delta […] Artist’s conception of super-Earth HIP 116454b. Image Credit: David A. Aguilar (CfA) The Kepler space telescope has found its first new exoplanet, a “super-Earth,” of its secondary mission phase. The discovery adds to a current tally of 996 confirmed exoplanets and 4,183 planetary candidates already found by the revolutionary planet-hunting telescope. […] In this image the James Webb Space Telescope’s secondary mirror is worked on by several engineers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Photo Credit: Chris Gunn / NASA NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has gained a golden “eye.” The eye is actually a secondary mirror which is coated […] |