28 March 2018
Woes for Webb as the space telescope is delayed again
... space telescope and the successor to NASA's famed Hubble Space Telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has had its launch date delayed again, this time until approximately May 2020. The JWST has been in the making since 1996 when the...
22 November 2017
JWST completes crucial cryogenic test
...for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST); confirming that the soon-to-be-launched observatory is ready for the frigid, airless environment of space. The Webb telescope is set to improve our understanding of the Universe in ways like the Hubble Space...
August 2017
On-orbit assembly will deliver major benefits in coming decade
...candidates that can 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...
21 November 2015
James Webb Space Telescope prepped to receive gold-coated primary mirror segments
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the much anticipated successor to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), that when operational will be able to see the first galaxies forming approximately 13.5 billion years ago, is being primed to receive all 18 ...
20 January 2017
Winners and potential losers of the Obama and Trump administrations
... then that not all is lost. Nonetheless, speaking at a press conference last year on the likelihood of whether the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would remain unscathed as President Trump takes office, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden is reported...
30 March 2016
Have astronomers found the signatures of the very first black holes formed through the collapse of gas clouds?
...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 (extended above...
