Polaris Dawn, the first of up to three human spaceflight missions planned under the Polaris program, was launched last week ...

According to astronaut Andrew Feustel, who last repaired Hubble in 2009, the proposal to modernize the telescope is very sensible. The Polaris program is still in its initial phase, but Isaacman ...

dock and move the telescope into a more stable orbit. “SpaceX and the Polaris Program want to expand the boundaries of current technology and explore how commercial partnerships can creatively ...

up/down design of an alt-azimuth mount – the kind you get with almost all budget telescopes aimed at beginners – the Sky-Watcher Explorer 130 EQ2 has one axis that must be aligned to Polaris ...

Before you start an observing session, you simply point the telescope at Polaris to calibrate the algorithm, a process which in the northern hemisphere is pretty easy. The telescope in question ...