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...
11 March 2019
NASA outlines future Moon to Mars plans
... humankind for generations. We will reveal the unknown with missions to Jupiter’s moon Europa and the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope. We will continue planning and developing the first round-trip mission to the Red Planet with Mars Sample...
May 2019
Unlocking the full potential of Earth observation
... ground. Last September NASA once again delayed the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), pushing it three years past its initial launch date to 2021. James Webb will peer into the cosmos using the most advanced imaging hardware available...
August 2018
Exoplanet census promises radical discoveries
... 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 its predecessor, the Hubble Space Telescope, but has 100 times the field of view with the same...
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...
