October 2017
Cassini observations open up Saturn’s atmosphere
..., but mission selection is a competitive process. In the meantime, assets on Earth and in orbit (like the James Webb Space Telescope) will continue to observe Saturn to build on Cassini’s legacy of discoveries, while keeping a watchful eye on the...
August 2020
Interstellar aspirations
... system could be built within a few decades for a cost consistent with large science experiments such as the James Webb Space Telescope and CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (about US$10 billion). The target velocity was 60,000 km/sec (20 percent of light...
February 2021
Space archaeology - preserving our orbital heritage
... drag and gravity to take effect. The Hubble Space Telescope - cultural as well as scientific icon. Harvest ... pointing to the multiple issues with the forthcoming James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Many opined that it was questionable whether...
13 February 2024
Thales Alenia Space to provide comms for planetary defence mission
... has contributed to hundreds of missions providing critical communications technologies, from low Earth orbit to deep space, including flagship NASA missions to explore the universe such as the James Webb Space Telescope and the Nancy Grace Roman...
January 2019
Preparing for a robotic revolution in Earth orbit
... be robotically assembled in a tile-like fashion. Even space telescopes could be designed for robotic assembly. One of NASA’s candidate telescope designs to succeed the James Webb Space Telescope, LUVOIR (Large UV Optical Infrared Surveyor), would...
January 2023
Is human space exploration DOOMED?
... contract will be picked up by other metagalaxies and go through the process of expansion and contraction. NASA James Webb Space Telescope image of Stephan s Quintet giving astronomers a ringside seat to galactic mergers and interactions. In the last...
