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Private mission to save NASA space telescope will launch in 2026 on a rocket dropped from a plane

Katalyst Space Technologies will use Northrop Grumman's air-launched Pegasus rocket for its upcoming mission, which will send ...
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NASA Will Save a Falling Telescope With a Plane-Boosted Rocket in 2026

The mission will use a larger variant of the rocket known as Pegasus XL, and is on target to launch in June 2026. Katalyst ...
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Bonkers NASA Mission Next Year Will Drop Rocket Out of Plane, Blast Off From There

NASA has an audacious plan to save a space telescope by using a rocket launched midair from a former passenger airliner.
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NASA mission will launch a rocket into space to prevent a huge telescope from colliding with Earth

NASA has announced that it will launch a rocket into space to prevent a huge telescope from colliding with Earth at the end ...
moneycontrol.com

NASA’s Roman telescope passes critical tests ahead of 2027 launch

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Image: NASA/Jolearra Tshiteya) The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope developed by ...
WFTV

Duke Energy researchers help launch telescope capturing cosmic images

ORLANDO, Fla. — Duke researchers say they have played a key role in developing a groundbreaking telescope that is now capturing the most detailed images of the universe ever taken. The Vera Rubin ...
The Boston Globe

The balloon that could: NASA secures special exemption to launch UMass Lowell-built telescope after government shutdown

The government shutdown has suspended work for hundreds of thousands of government employees, but it didn’t halt the launch of a new telescope designed and built by the scientists at the University of ...