January 2019
Preparing for a robotic revolution in Earth orbit
... 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 have a primary mirror of up to 15 metres in diameter and...
April 2019
Scanning the skies for exoplanets
... with other telescopes will be possible to help refine the initial data collected on this uncommon exoplanet. “The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will provide amazing data on this planet, as it has a brighter host star than many...
February 2020
Europe’s role in space standardisation
... example, the International Space Station with its many partners, ExoMars with Russia, Earthcare with JAXA, James Webb Telescope with NASA, SMILE with China), we develop a set of interface standards to ensure interoperability of the hardware. The...
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...
