Flagstaff company plans 1st-ever robotic space rescue mission to save telescope
Time is running out for a space telescope falling out of Earth orbit, and an Arizona company is rising to the rescue.
June 27, 2026
Time is running out for a space telescope falling out of Earth orbit, and an Arizona company is rising to the rescue.
Two prototype dishes for the DSA at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO) near Bishop, California.
NASA still runs the Voyagers on software written in a programming language nobody alive can read, kept going by a handful of engineers all in their eighties, with no one queued up to replace them.
Questions over the suitability of Orion’s heat shield have been answered following Artemis II’s successful splashdown, with a photograph showing “significantly reduced” charring.
We haven’t seen imagery like this in more than half a century
We haven’t seen imagery like this in more than half a century
