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It looks like we have a new space observatory! According to NASA, all the major deployments on the James Webb Space Telescope have been completed successfully. This includes the tricky …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: January 9, 2022
NASA’s US$10 billion James Webb Space Telescope has completed its final deployment without a mishap. Starting today at 8:53 am EST, the starboard wing of the 21-ft (640 cm) gold-plated primary mirror began to swing, locking into position at 1:17 pm.Con… Continue reading James Webb Space Telescope completes deployment as mirror opens
A new model by a team of scientists led by Yale University suggests that the ever elusive dark matter that has so far escaped the detection of scientists may be trapped inside primordial black holes left over after the Big Bang.Continue ReadingCategory… Continue reading Is the universe’s dark matter hiding in primordial black holes?
Well, that didn’t go quite as we expected, did it? Wind the clock back 365 days, and the world seemed to be breathing a collective sigh of relief after making …read more Continue reading 2021: As The Hardware World Turns
That sound you may have heard in the wee hours of Christmas morning had nothing to do with Santa; rather, it was the sound of a million astronomers collectively letting …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: January 2, 2022
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) hasn’t even finished unfurling itself after its December 25 launch and NASA says that its mission could already be extended beyond 10 years thanks to excess fuel for its onboard thrusters.Continue ReadingCategory: … Continue reading Extra fuel may keep James Webb Space Telescope going for over a decade
At the time of this writing, the James Webb Space Telescope was perched upon its ride to space, ready for its much-delayed launch from the ESA spaceport in French Guiana. …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: December 26, 2021
One of the most ambitious space projects since the Apollo era roared into space today as NASA’s long-delayed James Webb Space Telescope lifted off at 7:20 am EST (12:20 GMT) atop an Ariane 5 rocket from ESA’s Centre Spatial Guyanais in French Guiana.Co… Continue reading James Webb Space Telescope rockets into history
Key fobs as a service? Have we really gotten to that point? It would seem so, at least for Toyota, which is now requiring a subscription to use the company’s …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: December 19, 2021
After years of setbacks, the James Webb Space Telescope will finally launch next month. NASA has given the green light to begin fueling the observatory for launch, after engineering teams found no sign of damage from an incident last week.Continue Read… Continue reading James Webb Space Telescope cleared for launch on December 22