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Luxembourg, 3 March 2021. – This will be a real SpaceWatcher: NASA completed the final functional tests for the launch of the giant James Webb space telescope in October. James Webb completed its final functional performance tests at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, California, NASA said. “Testing teams successfully completed …

Luxembourg, 19 February 2021. – They did it! The “largest, most advanced rover NASA has sent to another world”, Perseverance, touched down on Mars yesterday, after a 203-day journey traversing nearly half a billion kilometers, NASA said. The successful touchdown was confirmed by the mission control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in …

Luxembourg, 18 February 2021. – Everybody will be watching it: NASA’s Perseverance rover will land on Mars tonight. The touchdown on the Red Planet is scheduled for approximately 3:55 p.m. EST today, the U.S. agency says. In New York City, the Empire State Building is illuminated in red to celebrate the …

Luxembourg, 18 February 2021. – Launch in November: DART, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test and NASA’s first flight demonstration for planetary defense, is now scheduled for a launch end of November, the agency said. DART “will attempt a technique that could one day be used to prevent an impact by …

Luxembourg, 16 February 2021. – Getting closer: While NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is nearing the Red Planet, the United Arab Emirate’s Hope mission sent a first picture. Perseverance’s touchdown on Mars is scheduled for Thursday, 18 February, the U.S. space agency said. NASA will provide live coverage of the landing …

by Jan Helge Mey L.LM. (McGill) and Dr. Ingo Baumann, BHO Legal, Germany While the space activities of China continue to advance in breadth and depth, rather little is known about the legal and regulatory framework within the country. It is difficult to find online sources and most texts are …

Paris, 11 February 2021. – The Office of Inspector General (OIG) of NASA estimates the total cost of the Artemis mission package through 2025 at a staggering $86 billion, the office said. $35.2 billion of it are seen as obligated funding while the other $50.5 billion are described as requested …

Paris, 9 February 2021. – Who’s first: Three Mars missions, from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), China and the U.S., are to reach the Red Planet in the next days. The UAE’s Hope orbiter is set to arrive today, followed by China’s Tianwen-1 mission and NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance next …

Paris, 8 February 2021. – Two agencies, two missions: The European Space Agency (ESA) and Japan’s space agency JAXA continue their cooperation in Earth observation, space science and exploration and put a new focus on two missions: Hera and MMX. Hera is an international asteroid and planetary defence mission which …

Paris, 5 February 2021. – Ten payloads to study the Moon: The U.S. space agency NASA has awarded the US-Ukrainian Firefly Aerospace a $93.3 million contract to deliver ten science investigations and technology demonstrations to the Moon in 2023, NASA said. The delivery of ten different payloads, weighing altogether nearly …