Starship Asterisk*

Almost 100 countries have their own satellites in space, but only about 15 of them are capable of launching satellites themselves. According to this list , the leaders are: The first place is for the U.S. (~3985). The second one is Russia (~1532). China is the third with its satellite industry (~506...

JWST has started the alignment of its 18 golden hexagons. When the setting finishes, the mirrors will be workning as a single focusing instrument. Whole procedure will take 3 months. By the way, JWST has already completed 84% of its way to Lagrange point 2. I've also found a cool explanation of JWST...

The Webb Space Telescope has transormned into its final form. Now it is on its way to Lagrange point 2. JWST has already completed about 80% of the way. https://twitter.com/NASAWebb/status/1479880178021060609?s=20 Just a quick reminder: the main goal of James Webb Space Telescope is discovering the ...

Elon Musk has announced on his Twitter that SpaceX is going to use CO2 to produce rocket fuel. What do you think of it? https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1470519292651352070?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1470519361295335425%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es2_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fw...

I may have lost my mind, but I have no clue about how the ebb and flow work. Well, I understand that Moon attracts water, which is more elastic than the earth. Hump A on the top of Earth is formed. But how does hump B on the opposite side form?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10364559/Cosmic-monster-star-spotted-violently-erupting-ejecting-energy-one-BILLION-suns.html A magnetar star has been spotted violently erupting and ejecting as much energy as one billion suns within a tenth of a second. The star, which has been dubbe...

2021 seems to be the most breakthrough year for space industry to date. Space tourism resumption, spacex successful launches, tha launch of the greatest telescope we've ever created. Great year! Hopefully, the year 2022 has something to surprise us with

Hi everyone! I'm a newbie here and the very first thing I've already noticed that this JSWT thread is the oldest that I've seen while surfing other astro forums. That's nice! By the way, all of 5 layers of the sunshield have already been deployed. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-5987373...