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Nasa’s new space telescope ‘hunky-dory’ after problems fixed

Nasa’s new space telescope is doing well more than a week after lift-off, following a pair of problems overcome by ground controllers, officials have said. The tennis court-size sunshield on the James Webb Space Telescope is now fully open and in ...

03 Jan 2022 at 20:55

World

Nasa nails trickiest job on newly launched space telescope

Nasa has successfully completed the most complicated and critical job on its newly launched space telescope: unrolling and stretching a sunshade the size of a tennis court. Ground controllers cheered and bumped fists once the fifth and final ...

04 Jan 2022 at 20:55

World

China complains to US over Elon Musk’s ‘dangerous’ satellites

China is calling on the United States to protect a Chinese space station and its three-member crew after Beijing complained that satellites launched by Elon Musk’s SpaceX nearly struck the station. A foreign ministry spokesman accused ...

29 Dec 2021 at 09:25

Shetland can be ‘at the heart’ of UK space industry, says minister

Scotland

Shetland can be ‘at the heart’ of UK’s space industry, says minister

Shetland can be “at the heart” of the space industry in the UK, a new Scotland Office minister has said. In his first engagements since being appointed by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, John Lamont visited the SaxaVord space port on ...

11 Nov 2022 at 17:39

World

Space telescope’s ‘golden eye’ opens to complete last major hurdle

Nasa’s new space telescope opened its huge, gold-plated, flower-shaped mirror on Saturday, the final step in the observatory’s dramatic unfurling. The last portion of the 21-foot mirror swung into place at flight controllers’ ...

08 Jan 2022 at 19:55

James Webb, nine, watches James Webb telescope blast into space

It will take the James Webb telescope just 30 days to reach the sun’s orbit, but for one little boy it will be the journey of a lifetime. Barry and Sarah Webb met while studying physics at Nottingham Trent University. So it ...

08 Jan 2022 at 11:25

How UK scientists are contributing to European Space Agency’s Juice mission

Juice, a European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft, is getting ready for its journey to Jupiter in a mission to find out if any of the giant planet’s three ocean-bearing moons are habitable. Scientists in the UK have led the ...

09 Apr 2023 at 02:45

World

India’s lunar rover to conduct experiments on moon’s surface

A lunar rover descended a ramp from the lander of India’s spacecraft within hours of its historic touch-down near the moon’s south pole, Indian space officials have said, as the country celebrated its new scientific ...

25 Aug 2023 at 09:17

Virgin Galactic completes its first space tourism flight

Virgin Galactic’s first space tourism flight has successfully landed back on Earth after taking three passengers into space. They were flown to the edge of space and experienced zero-gravity while looking back at ...

10 Aug 2023 at 17:11

World

Russia’s first moon mission in nearly 50 years blasts off

A rocket carrying a lunar landing craft has blasted off on Russia’s first moon mission in nearly 50 years, racing to land on Earth’s satellite ahead of an Indian spacecraft. The launch from Russia’s Vostochny ...

11 Aug 2023 at 08:46

UK scientists ‘excited’ about playing key roles in ESA’s Jupiter mission

Scientists in the UK have spoken of their excitement about playing key roles in the European Space Agency’s (ESA) mission to launch a spacecraft to Jupiter. Juice, which stands for Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer,...

13 Apr 2023 at 12:12

Scotland

Scottish space sector publishes ‘historic’ plan for industry to go sustainable

Scotland’s space sector has published a new “roadmap”, believed to be the first of its kind, in an effort to make the industry more sustainable. The report addresses areas such as the environmental impacts ...

06 Sept 2022 at 14:19

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