May 2020
Space astronomy at the limits of technology
... for decades to come, and will be instrumental in helping astronomers effectively utilise future NASA missions like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST). How would you describe...
August 2020
Interstellar aspirations
... a 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...
November 2020
The alien hunter’s field manual
... only measures one other, as would be applicable when combining one of the most immediate experiments like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) with a large scale SETI search for technosignatures. In this case, each survey provides...
February 2021
Space archaeology - preserving our orbital heritage
... telescope. Some highlighted the benefits of keeping Hubble going by pointing to the multiple issues with the forthcoming James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Many opined that it was questionable whether it will ever get off the ground...
October 2021
Technology transfer and the ‘local’ space market
... lunar missions. The established space research community in Scotland has been involved with projects such as NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and ESA’s GAIA, ExoMars, BepiColombo and Sentinel missions. Its extensive activities have been...
30 March 2016
Have astronomers found the signatures of the very first black holes formed through the collapse of gas clouds?
... (e.g. HST, VLT, Keck) because they are too faint. This limitation will hopefully be bypassed when the James Webb Space telescope (JWST) is deployed in October 2018. As the mission gets underway, a large wealth of infrared spectroscopic data...
