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The James Webb Space Telescope owes its success to Hubble's bumpy start
By John Loeffler last updated
When Hubble launched in 1990, mission managers missed a defect in the primary mirror that threated the entire project. NASA vowed to not repeat that mistake with Webb.

Beyond Webb: why NASA's new $10 billion space telescope is just the beginning
By Jamie Carter last updated
Observatories like the multi-billion-dollar James Webb Space Telescope take decades to develop and deploy. Now that Webb's in place, here are the "eyes in the sky" coming up next.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope successfully positioned to look back in time
By John Loeffler published
The James Webb Space Telescope has been successfully deployed and positioned in its orbit, and will soon be ready to look back in time to see the earliest days of the universe.

What’s on the James Webb Space Telescope’s ‘to do’ list?
By Jamie Carter published
From ‘cosmic dawn’ to finding ‘Earth 2.0’ the world’s most advanced space observatory is going to have a busy first year.

Webb deployment, Martian flight delays, and more in this week's science news
By John Loeffler published
Roundup While we wait for Webb to make its insertion burn on Monday, Mars Ingenuity Flight 19 was delayed by bad weather, and orcas can be nice sometimes.

Mars Ingenuity becomes first aircraft ever grounded on another planet due to weather
By John Loeffler published
NASA's Mars Ingenuity drone has suffered a flight delay due to inclement weather, marking another weird historical milestone we didn't see coming.

NASA is taking Cisco Webex to space
By Anthony Spadafora published
Cisco and Amazon will send Webex and Alexa to the Moon and back as part of NASA's upcoming Artemis 1 mission.

'We have a telescope': James Webb Space Telescope's secondary mirror is now in place
By John Loeffler published
NASA announced the successful deployment of the secondary mirror on the James Webb Space Telescope, the latest major milestone passed by the $10 billion telescope.
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