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James Webb Space Telescope’s Newest Selfie is a Revolution

Syed Hassan Zaman — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 08:44:36 +0000

NASA is heading space exploration into the limitless insights and depth of observations. Since the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, there were concerns about the successful completion of mirror alignment and capturing the images of distant stars and galaxies. Adding to the complexity, It is the first-ever telescope to launch a million miles […]

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NASA disclosed a mosaic of images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Jazib Zaman — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 09:02:12 +0000

NASA has unveiled the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope. The most hectic task in taking an image of distant celestial bodies is the proper alignment of 18 primary mirrors of JWST. Now NASA has surpassed this initial step and has taken a mosaic of first images by properly aligning the 18 primary […]

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Is the James Webb Space Telescope a New Era of Space Exploration or a Quest for a Habitable Planet?

Syed Hassan Zaman — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 09:56:41 +0000

What is the origin of the universe? How did the universe come into being? What are the possibilities of the habitable planets in the distant cosmos? NASA launched James Webb Space Telescope on Christmas day with these lofty and outlandish ambitions. Though JWST was supposed to launch in 2010. Moreover, the cost of JWST should […]

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SpaceX launches its first all-civilian mission to space

Amna Jawaid — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 16:04:50 +0000

SpaceX sent four private citizens into space, marking the first-ever crewed mission to space without the presence of professional astronauts. The mission, dubbed Inspiration4, is the latest private foray into space as companies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX seek to make space travel more accessible to those who aren’t government astronauts. At 8:02 p.m. ET, on […]

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NASA sets new launch date for James Webb Space Telescope

Amna Jawaid — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 18:47:49 +0000

NASA announced that the James Webb Space Telescope, humanity’s next big space-bound eye on the universe, will launch on December 18th. It’s the latest in a series of delays for a telescope that was supposed to go into space as early as 2007. The $8.8 billion observatories, which is a tennis court-sized successor to NASA’s […]

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NASA confirms Perseverance rover’s first Mars rock sample

Amna Jawaid — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 18:52:42 +0000

NASA has announced that Perseverance succeeded in its second try after previously failing to acquire a rock sample. In addition, NASA has confirmed that a pencil-width core of rust-colored rock is stored safely in the rover’s sample tube and is available in the system and returned to Earth. Last month, NASA assumed it had been […]

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Blue Origin sues NASA over the decision to award SpaceX lunar lander contract

Sheharyar Ahmad Saeed — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 13:23:57 +0000

Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’s space exploration firm, is suing NASA over the awarding of a $2.9bn contract for a lunar lander project to Elon Musk’s SpaceX. An already tense standoff over the multibillion-dollar lunar lander program intensified on Friday by the federal lawsuit by Blue Origin that challenges a NASA moon landing contract awarded to […]

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX is buying a California-based small satellite startup

Sheharyar Ahmad Saeed — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 13:24:06 +0000

Elon Musk‘s SpaceX has acquired Swarm Technologies, a small-satellite data provider, along with the startup’s 30 staff members and network of 120 satellites. This is just SpaceX’s first foray into the internet of things. SpaceX, which usually makes its rockets and satellite hardware in-house or through subcontractors, struck this unusual agreement last month. Swarm disclosed […]

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Government turns down Bezos’ protest and endorses NASA’s decision to award the contract to SpaceX

Sheharyar Ahmad Saeed — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 13:14:04 +0000

In a statement, Government Accountability Office officials denied claims made by Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin and Dynetics that NASA wrongfully awarded a lucrative moon lander contract exclusively to SpaceX. The complaints came from Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and Leidos’ subsidiary company Dynetics. In its decision, the GAO leaves the lucrative Moon lander program to Elon […]

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Jeff Bezos offers NASA $2 billion for lunar landing contract

Sheharyar Ahmad Saeed — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 12:11:52 +0000

A discount of at least $2 billion is being offered by Jeff Bezos to NASA for its lucrative human lunar landing system contract that Elon Musk’s SpaceX has already won earlier this year. This latest bid by Bezos represents the latest step in a series of efforts for Blue Origin to win the contract from […]

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