11 March 2019
NASA outlines future Moon to Mars plans
... for generations. We will reveal the unknown with missions to Jupiter’s moon Europa and the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope. We will continue planning and developing the first round-trip mission to the Red Planet with Mars...
16 July 2021
NASA's $25 billion FY2022 funding bill is approved
... request for Mars Sample Return, $68.6 million more for Europa Clipper, and $175,400 for the James Webb Space telescope. Aeronautics research was granted $935 million as part of the bill, whilst the $1425 million requested for...
05 October 2020
A dozen "superhabitable" planets better than Earth identified in new study
... efforts, such as from NASA's James Web Space Telescope, the LUVIOR space observatory and the European Space Agency's PLATO space telescope when they become operational. "With the next space telescopes coming up, we will get more information...
29 December 2021
Success so far means JWST has enough fuel to extend its science lifetime, NASA say
... need less propellant than originally planned for to put it into its final orbit. Unlike the Hubble Space Telescope, JWST will not orbit around the Earth, but instead will orbit the Sun 1.5 million kilometers...
May 2019
Unlocking the full potential of Earth observation
...-speed data connection. One day, humans could be an interplanetary species colonising the distant planets seen by the James Webb Space Telescope. Until that day, we will need to make the most of the planet that we already have. About the...
22 November 2015
James Webb Space Telescope prepped to receive gold-coated primary mirror segments
... large mirror,” said Lee Feinberg, NASA Optical Telescope Element Manager for the James Webb Space Telescope at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The technical challenges of building a complex telescope such as the JSWT has meant that...
