August 2017
On-orbit assembly will deliver major benefits in coming decade
... decade. The search for exoplanets is one of the most exciting space science endeavours and though NASA’s James Webb telescope will cost about US$9 billion it may be too small to yield clear scientific conclusions on exoplanets. To deploy a telescope...
21 November 2015
James Webb Space Telescope prepped to receive gold-coated primary mirror segments
... they are a single 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...
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 ...
May 2022
The Space Industry in 2022
... industry. It witnessed the first all-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...
22 February 2017
NASA announces the discovery of first-ever exoplanet system with seven Earth-size planets
... in 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...
March 2017
Twinkle - a mission to unravel the story of planets in our galaxy
...no data is currently available in the mid-infrared. The James Webb Telescope is due for launch in late 2018 and the ...Centre (UKATC) and incorporates design heritage from the James Webb Space Telescope’s MIRI infrared instrument. Observations with ...
