20 March 2019
Webb telescope partly blamed for WFIRST funding cut
... but 100 times the field of view, “WFIRST will characterize extrasolar planets, advance planet imaging, discover..., from an intelligence agency that wasn’t using it — and that WFIRST is now estimated at $3.2 billion to $3.9 billion. Webb gets $353...
August 2018
Exoplanet census promises radical discoveries
...same resolving power, enabling revolutionary science in both exoplanets and cosmology. During its five-year mission, WFIRST’s exoplanet microlensing survey will discover thousands of new exoplanets, completing the census of planets with orbits beyond...
October 2020
Learning from alternative universes
...Controversy in our universe NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) will be crucial in revealing the true value of the ... the mid-2020s, over its first five years of observations WFIRST will image over 50 times as much sky as Hubble has...
18 December 2019
US Senate suggests Artemis delay after requested funding halved
... two Earth science initiatives, PACE and CLARREO-Pathfinder, and the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST). WFIRST was recommended in 2010 by United States National Research Council Decadal Survey committee as the top priority for...
June 2020
Saving Earth – time for a new cooperative framework
... down to 30 m and be deployed far enough away from Earth to see a much wider field than that anticipated by WFIRST or NEOCAM. Secondly, research on PHA diversion techniques needs to be greatly improved by all of the world’s space agencies as they...
May 2020
Space astronomy at the limits of technology
... missions like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST). How would you describe the engineering legacy of these developments? The use of similar materials and processes...
