Hubble
A visible and ultraviolet observatory that is still taking data more than three decades after launch. It shares the sky with Webb rather than handing the sky over.
Timeline
A thin index of the eras on the strip. The news stays on the home page.
A visible and ultraviolet observatory that is still taking data more than three decades after launch. It shares the sky with Webb rather than handing the sky over.
The crewed laboratory in low Earth orbit. Most of what the public calls a spacewalk is station maintenance: cameras, cables, and the hardware that lets the next vehicle dock.
The antennas. Near-Earth relays such as TDRS, and the Deep Space Network for anything past the Moon, are the unglamorous half of every mission.
Operational weather and environment satellites, plus research craft that measure something the operational fleet does not. Sentinel-3 and FLEX are the current pair.
The infrared flagship at the Sun-Earth L2 point. It does not replace Hubble. It sees the light Hubble cannot.
No desk note in this era yet.
The lunar return program, and the Accords that sit beside the hardware: a set of operating principles for countries that want to work on and around the Moon.