August 2018
Exoplanet census promises radical discoveries
NASA’s next large space observatory after the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the Wide Field Infra-Red Survey Telescope (WFIRST). It is about the same size as its predecessor, the Hubble Space Telescope, but has 100 times the field of view with...
May 2022
The Space Industry in 2022
...-civilian spaceflight, three successful missions to Mars, the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope and a record US$12.4 billion investment of private capital in the space ecosystem, an increase of more than 60 percent year-on-year. Meanwhile, the...
20 March 2019
Webb telescope partly blamed for WFIRST funding cut
... tell you it has been a challenge for me, as your NASA administrator, to go up to [Capitol] Hill and talk about the James Webb Space Telescope,” said the agency’s top official, Jim Bridenstine, in a speech March 11. “Some of you might have seen those...
August 2017
On-orbit assembly will deliver major benefits in coming decade
... be characterised, and the relation is plotted in Figure 2. Data points are included for the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the latter being the next NASA HDST mission planned for launch in 2018...
12 July 2022
Star billing for first Webb picture
... during a White House event on Monday (11 July) by US President Joe Biden. "Webb's First Deep Field is not only the first full-colour image from the James Webb Space Telescope, it’s the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe...
22 February 2017
NASA announces the discovery of first-ever exoplanet system with seven Earth-size planets
... Pasadena, California. "Spitzer will follow up in the fall to further refine our understanding of these planets so that the James Webb Space Telescope can follow up. More observations of the system are sure to reveal more secrets.” NASA will use its...
