NASA successful test the folding of the Webb Telescope Sunshield

This article is a helpful resource for Deep Space Diary Activity 3.4: Pack Your Payload.  Engineers working on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have successfully folded and packed its sunshield for its upcoming million-mile (roughly 1.5 million kilometer) journey, which begins later this year. The sunshield — a five-layer, diamond-shaped […]

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Celestial Dates 2019

With everything from eclipses to rare sighting of Mercury, 2019 is a great year for casting your eyes upwards and into the night sky!

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Watch Astronaut Tim Peake Return to Earth

Saturday 18th June is the big day when Tim Peake returns to Earth after six months on the International Space Station. Tim will return in a Soyuz capsule, along with crewmates Yuri Malenchenko and Tim Kopra. He’s due to land in Kazakhstan at 10.15am BST.

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