August 2017
On-orbit assembly will deliver major benefits in coming decade
... and operations, and Figure 1 illustrates how these affect profitability and revenues. Artist conception of the James Webb Space Telescope. On-orbit assembly can be defined as the aggregation onto an orbiting platform of ready-made structures that...
22 November 2015
James Webb Space Telescope prepped to receive gold-coated primary mirror segments
...Feinberg, NASA Optical Telescope Element Manager for the James Webb Space Telescope at the Goddard Space Flight Center in ... is one of the three major elements that comprise the Webb Observatory flight system is undergoing its final “super cold” ...
August 2018
Exoplanet census promises radical discoveries
NASA’s next 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 ...
May 2022
The Space Industry in 2022
... industry. It witnessed the first all-civilian spaceflight, three successful missions to Mars, the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope and a record US$12.4 billion investment of private capital in the space ecosystem, an increase of more than...
May 2026
From Apollo to Artemis - Six decades of the Lunar and Planetary Institute
... on the Moon. Recognising the need for deeper engagement with the academic community, NASA Administrator James Webb commissioned a committee led by Dr Frederick Seitz, President of the National Academy of Sciences. By July 1967, these discussions...
November 2025
Searching for life beyond Earth
... at finding and studying an Earth-like world. The James Webb Space Telescope gives us our first real opportunity in human history...exoplanets that probably have those conditions. Those the James Webb Space Telescope can study, we call ‘Earth cousins...
