The first Double Star spacecraft was successfully launched from Xichang, Southern China, on 29 December 2003 at 19:06 UT. The final operational orbit is 570 by 78 970 km, with an inclination of 28.5 ...

Alignment of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is now complete. After full review, the observatory has been confirmed to be capable of capturing crisp, well-focused images with each of its four ...

Highly anticipated: NASA said the optical performance of the scope continues to exceed their most optimistic predictions. In fact, the agency said the image quality is "diffraction-limited," meaning ...

Finishing a major automation project on time and on budget depends on putting the best digital tools in the hands of highly skilled people. Over the last several decades, process instrumentation has ...