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NASA tests deployment of Roman Space Telescope's 'visor'
After a successful test deployment at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, clean room technicians inspect the Deployable Aperture Cover for NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn

The "visor" for NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope recently completed several environmental tests simulating the conditions it will experience during launch and in space. Called the Deployable Aperture Cover, this large sunshade is designed to keep unwanted light out of the telescope. This milestone marks the halfway point for the cover's final sprint of testing, bringing it one step closer to integration with Roman's other subsystems this fall.

Designed and built at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, the Deployable Aperture Cover consists of two layers of reinforced thermal blankets, distinguishing it from previous hard aperture covers, like those on NASA's Hubble.

Week in images: 05-09 August 2024

Friday, 09 August 2024 12:15
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ESA project astronaut Sławosz Uznański joined his colleagues from the 2022 Astronaut Class in Bordeaux for a series of parabolic flights allowing them to experience what microgravity feels like.

Week in images: 05-09 August 2024

Discover our week through the lens

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NASA mission concludes after years of successful asteroid detections
This final image captured by NASA’s NEOWISE shows part of the Fornax constellation in the Southern Hemisphere. Processed by IPAC at Caltech, this is the mission’s 26,886,704th exposure. It was taken by the spacecraft just before midnight Pacific Time on July 31, when the mission’s survey ended. Credit: NASA

The infrared NEOWISE space telescope relayed its final data to Earth before the project team at JPL sent a command that turned off its transmitter.

Engineers on NASA's NEOWISE (Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) mission commanded the spacecraft to turn its transmitter off for the last time Thursday.

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Could 2 NASA astronauts be stuck at the space station until next year? Here's what to know
NASA astronauts Suni Williams, left, and Butch Wilmore stand together for a photo enroute to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 Wednesday, June 5, 2024, in Cape Canaveral, Fla., for their liftoff on the Boeing Starliner capsule to the international space station. Credit: AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File

NASA is wrestling over how and when to bring two astronauts back from the International Space Station, after repeatedly delaying their return aboard Boeing's troubled capsule.

Do they take a chance and send them home soon in Boeing's Starliner? Or wait and bring them back next year with SpaceX?

Build your own Ariane 6 rocket with ESA!

Friday, 09 August 2024 07:00
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Build your own Ariane 6 rocket with ESA!

Download your printable kit and join the competition.

The hidden intricacies of Messier 106

Friday, 09 August 2024 07:00
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The hidden intricacies of Messier 106 Image: The hidden intricacies of Messier 106
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Washington (AFP) Aug 7, 2024
What was meant to be a weeklong trip to the International Space Station (ISS) for the first NASA astronauts to fly with Boeing could extend to eight months, with the agency considering bringing them home on a SpaceX spaceship. A final decision on whether to persist with Boeing's troubled Starliner - which experienced worrying propulsion issues as it flew up to the orbital platform in June -
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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 08, 2024
Astrobotic has been chosen by NASA for a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award worth about $150k to create an Extra Large Vertical Solar Array Technology (VSAT-XL) for the Moon. The VSAT-XL, measuring 34m in height and 12.5m in width, is set to become the largest planned lunar power infrastructure to meet increasing energy needs on the lunar surface. Building on the 10kW lunar VS
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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 08, 2024
Firefly Aerospace, Inc., a comprehensive space transportation company, has announced a new multi-launch agreement with L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) for up to 20 launches utilizing Firefly's Alpha rocket. This agreement includes two to four missions per year from 2027 to 2031, contingent on customer requirements. This latest agreement supplements Firefly's existing contract with L3Harris for
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