Space

Laser-vision star tracker, docking system, and desert landing proven as practical space applications of the future Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner docks with the International Space Station on May 20, 2022, completing an important objective of the uncrewed Orbital Flight Test-2. Credit: NASA One day after launching May 19 from Florida’s Space Coast on a United Launch

WASHINGTON — The European Space Agency now plans to launch a space telescope and an asteroid mission on Falcon 9 rockets because of its loss of access to Soyuz vehicles and delays in the introduction of the Ariane 6. At an Oct. 20 press briefing after a meeting of the ESA Council, ESA Director General