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International Space Station in 2021 Contract secures build for HydroGNSS Scout mission
Today, as Φ-week gets underway, ESA has signed a contract with Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd to build the HydroGNSS Scout mission. Embracing the concept of New Space, HydroGNSS is a micro satellite that will use a technique called Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) reflectometry to measure climate variables such as soil moisture, freeze–thaw state over permafrost and inundation.
Space Development Agency seeks proposals for 18 satellites with experimental payloads
The Space Development Agency on Oct. 8 issued a draft request for bids for 18 satellites that will carry experimental payloads.
Hiber partners with Inmarsat for IoT satellite network
Days after acknowledging it would no longer operate its own satellite network, Dutch internet-of-things startup Hiber says it is partnering with Inmarsat to provide those services.
ICEYE commercial satellites join the EU Copernicus programme
ESA signed a contract that brings the ICEYE constellation of small satellites into the fleet of missions contributing to Europe’s Copernicus environmental monitoring programme. As a commercial provider of satellite radar imagery, ICEYE is a perfect example of European New Space being implemented within Copernicus.
As Shatner heads toward the stars, visions of space collide
![As Shatner heads toward the stars, visions of space collide](https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2021/as-shatner-heads-towar.jpg "In this 1988 file photo, William Shatner, who portrays Capt. James T. Kirk, attends a photo opportunity for the film "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier." The performer who breathed life into Kirk is, at age 90, heading toward the stars under dramatically different circumstances than his fictional counterpart when Shatner boards Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin NS-18. Credit: AP Photo/Bob Galbraith, File")
ESA welcomes Webb in French Guiana for launch on Ariane 5
Impression of Webb’s journey to space
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The James Webb Space Telescope will be the largest, most powerful telescope ever launched into space.
Webb’s flight into orbit will take place on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.
Webb is the next great space science observatory, designed to answer outstanding questions about the Universe and to make breakthrough discoveries in all fields of astronomy. Webb will see farther into our origins – from the formation of stars and planets, to the birth of the first galaxies in the early Universe.
During the first month in space, on its way to the second Langrange point
Gardening, dreams and new records in space: a September of science
As International Space Station crew members prepared for an action-packed October, they broke records, tested virtual reality headsets and even grew plants in microgravity. Read on for science highlights from a stellar September in space.
NASA’s Webb Space Telescope Arrives in French Guiana After Sea Voyage
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope successfully arrived in French Guiana Tuesday, after a 16-day journey at sea. 
