May 2022
Essential guide to the James Webb Space Telescope
... beyond the red end of the visible spectrum, deep into the infrared - invisible to Hubble but exactly poised for JWST. Another motivation for selecting an infrared space telescope comes from our recent advances in the field of exoplanets; worlds...
January 2020
Small body missions unveil interplanetary secrets
...A recent National Academy report - “Finding Hazardous Asteroids Using Infrared and Visible Wavelength Telescopes (2019)” - stated that a specially designed infrared space telescope survey mission is necessary in order to reliably obtain many of these...
04 February 2022
NASA’s real-life “Don’t Look Up” programme
... authorization to move forward into Preliminary Design, known as Key Decision Point- B. Once complete, the infrared space telescope will expedite the agency’s ability to discover and characterise most of the potentially hazardous NEOs, including...
June 2020
Saving Earth – time for a new cooperative framework
... with Earth, ideally systems than can detect NEOs that are 30 m and larger. So, firstly, the next infrared space telescope needs to be able to detect asteroids down to 30 m and be deployed far enough away from Earth to see a much wider...
August 2018
Exoplanet census promises radical discoveries
... Adjutant Scientist for the Coronagraph Instrument on NASA’s upcoming Wide Field Infrared Space Telescope (WFIRST). David Bennett is a Senior Research Scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the University of Maryland, USA. He developed the...
