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Since NASA is collaborating with the European Space Agency on its next-generation James Webb Space Telescope, the latter contributes several components to the observatory, including the Min InfraRed Instrument. The device has been handed to ESA, and is now ready for delivery to the US.
MIRI was developed by a consor... |
9 May 2012
09:59 GMT |
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The primary mirrors on the NASA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) contain 18 hexagonal parts, which are oriented in respect to each other by individual actuators located underneath. All of them are attached to a hardware component called a tower, which was recently completed by engineers.
The Northrop Grumman Corpor... |
8 May 2012
10:55 GMT |
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The construction of NASA's next-generation observatory, which is scheduled to replace the Hubble Space Telescope by 2018, is coming along nicely. A few days ago, several key components of the James Webb Space Telescope were lowered in a special test chamber, where they are now frozen. The thermal vacuum test c... |
30 April 2012
10:14 GMT |
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Experts at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), in Greenbelt, Maryland, announce the completion of a critically-important component of its next-generation flagship observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
Engineers have just finished assembling the primary mirror backplane support structure, which... |
25 April 2012
04:05 GMT |
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Officials at Northrop Grumman Corporation, one of two main contractors on NASA's next-generation James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), announce that yet another critical component for the future spacecraft has been completed, and passed an important design review.
Scientists at the company recently completed engi... |
18 April 2012
05:44 GMT |
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Officials at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), in Greenbelt, Maryland, announce that the OTE (Optical Telescope Element) Simulator, or OSIM, a component developed for the James Webb Space Telescope, is currently undergoing thermal vacuum testing.
The giant test chamber is called the Space Environment Sim... |
13 April 2012
06:00 GMT |
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Officials at the Northrop Grumman Corporation announce that they have just received the first flight recorder that will go on the NASA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The instrument was built by Centennial, Colorado-based SEAKR Engineering, Inc.
The flight recorder is a solid-state electronics unit that will capt... |
3 April 2012
10:47 GMT |
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Officials at the American space agency say that Hubble's successor, the James Webb Space Telescope, will not launch before 2018. However, when it does take off, the instrument will allow us to search for small extrasolar planets around distant stars.
The observatory is being put together in order to unlock som... |
29 February 2012
16:31 GMT |
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According to analysts, constructing the James Webb Space Telescope is an endeavor that requires broad political support outside NASA and the international scientific community. This is the lesson that can be derived from past “big science” projects.
The JWST is scheduled to succeed the NASA/ESA Hubble Sp... |
28 February 2012
05:45 GMT |
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The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration requested a budget of $17.7 billion (€13.46 billion) for Fiscal Year 2013. NASA says that this level of funding will be sufficient to allow the United States to maintain its leadership status in space.
The budget includes $627.6 million for the James Webb Spa... |
14 February 2012
02:49 GMT |
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The successor NASA plans for the Hubble Space Telescope will continue to receive funding throughout 2012, representatives from the American space agency announced recently. Still, this was not the only problem plaguing the project, and its fate has yet to be fully decided.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is o... |
17 January 2012
20:01 GMT |
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As the economic crisis and austerity measures are slowly chipping away at the American space agency's annual budget, the future of flagship missions destined to study deep space is coming under question. The main issue is that no clear, acceptable solution is currently in sight.
By 2020, NASA has big plans for... |
17 January 2012
04:58 GMT |
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The NASA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) development program has reached a new milestone recently, when both the primary and secondary mirrors that will go on the massive observatory successfully completed cryogenic testing. This phase is absolutely essential for the good functioning of the JWST, which will be th... |
22 December 2011
03:31 GMT |
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Starting January 4, physicist and former NASA astronaut John Grunsfeld will become the associate administrator for the space agency's Science Mission Directorate (SMD). This division controls the $5.1 billion NASA gets every year to conduct scientific exploration of space and the solar system.
He will control p... |
20 December 2011
05:08 GMT |
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The Center of Curvature Optical Assembly (COCOA) tool will be used on the NASA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) this winter, when engineers building the massive space observatory will test to see whether its mirrors are perfectly shaped and aligned or not.
Having a correct mirror alignment tends to be rather impor... |
15 December 2011
10:09 GMT |
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Engineers with the Northrop Grumman Corporation announced that the 14 tubes, which would make up half of the Mid Boom Assembly on the NASA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), had just been completed. This marks an important milestone in the observatory's development.
The MBA is made up of 14 graphite composite ... |
12 December 2011
10:36 GMT |
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) construction process can now continue at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). Recently, an impressive steel structure was delivered to a clean room at the Center, on which the telescope's components will be mounted.
The steel frame is called the optical assembly sta... |
18 November 2011
03:58 GMT |
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During a conference call on November 1, JWST program manager Rick Howard told a Congressional panel that NASA will have to delay a number of space missions currently scheduled to launch beyond 2015, if the agency is to fly the James Webb Space Telescope in 2018.
The organization is very intent on finishing its flag... |
8 November 2011
03:37 GMT |
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On Wednesday, October 26, a permanent exhibit dedicated to the NASA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was inaugurated at the Maryland Science Center, in Baltimore, Maryland. The ceremony was attended by US Senator Barbara Mikulski (D.-Md) and NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver.
Most of the exhibits to be displaye... |
27 October 2011
14:01 GMT |
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A group of officials from NASA, the US Senate and a number of universities and museums can be seen in this October 26 image posing in front of a full-scale model of the NASA James Webb Space Telescope. The model is currently exhibited at the Maryland Science Center, in Baltimore.
Former NASA astronaut and Deputy Di... |
27 October 2011
03:00 GMT |
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Engineers constructing the successor to the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope say that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will also be able to detect exoplanets, in addition to being capable of seeing into the deepest corners of the Universe.
Since the US House of Representatives proposed cutting funds for the deve... |
26 October 2011
05:18 GMT |
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When the NASA Hubble Space Telescope will be retired from active duty, the James Webb Space Telescope should theoretically be put in its place. This is the most advanced, largest orbital observatory ever designed, and is currently under construction.
The tool will have a massive main mirror, several times la... |
5 October 2011
10:36 GMT |
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The US Senate's version of the 2012 budget leaves NASA with 2.5 percent less money than the 2011 levels, therefore forcing the agency to make do with its lowest level of funding since 2009. But the newly-approved document also contains some good news for the organization.
The Senate Appropriations Committee ... |
20 September 2011
03:06 GMT |
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Engineers working for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) development program at major contractor Northrop Grumman have recently began the first rounds of tests on the massive observatory's solar shield material.
The JWST is the largest, most advanced space telescope ever built, and as such sports its own ... |
19 September 2011
16:31 GMT |
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The Senate version of the 2012 fiscal year appropriation bill was marked yesterday, September 14, a huge milestone for the endangered NASA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The House version of the same act proposed that the project be terminated despite obvious progress.When that announcement was first made, the in... |
15 September 2011
10:56 GMT |
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Scientists managing the construction efforts for the NASA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) announce that another important milestone has just been achieved. All the massive mirrors that will go aboard the observatory have now been covered with a special coating.
The process took place at the Moorestown, New Jers... |
14 September 2011
04:47 GMT |
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Amidst concerns that the NASA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) might be canceled, a recent report provides another blow for the already-battered project. According to new estimates, the life cycle costs associated with the mission have soared from $6.5 billion to $8.7 billion.The document comes at the most inappropr... |
23 August 2011
07:25 GMT |
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Experts in the United Kingdom announce the successful completion of the Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI). The device, which will go on the James Webb Space Telescope, is the first of the observatory's complex suite to be finished.It also represents the key European contribution to the NASA-led project. At this poi... |
18 August 2011
07:56 GMT |
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The NASA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is already helping to improve the world. Though its advanced technology is created to observe the early Universe, experts have already found a way to apply it to the field of ophthalmology, or eye health.
If completed, this telescope will be the American space agency... |
29 July 2011
02:52 GMT |
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After recent announcements that all 18 primary mirror segments for the NASA James Webb Space Telescope have been completed, officials at the American space agency say that the secondary mirrors destined to go on the next-generation space observatory have also been completed. Unlike other space-based telescopes, the J... |
20 July 2011
03:55 GMT |
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Members of the US House Appropriations Committee have adopted the bill that cancels the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NASA is developing, two satellite missions of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and severely hampers progress on many other missions.The vote on a 2012 spending bill took... |
14 July 2011
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Members of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) released a strong-worded statement on Thursday, July 7, dealing with the House Appropriations Committee proposal of canceling the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the most advanced observatory every designed. The AAS considers the JWST to be the centerpiece of Unit... |
8 July 2011
05:07 GMT |
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The 2012 NASA budget bill proposed by the US House Appropriations commerce, justice, science subcommittee calls for the cancellation of the NASA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), but the scientific community is highlighting just how devastating that would be. Over the past decades, it's undeniable that remarkab... |
8 July 2011
03:51 GMT |
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The provisions of a spending bill for 2012 call for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project to be discontinued. The document was put together by members of the House Appropriations commerce, justice, science subcommittee.
This group oversees all NASA spending. Its members say that the proposal is part of lar... |
7 July 2011
02:38 GMT |
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Officials at the American space agency announce that the remaining 12 mirror segments for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have finally been polished. This marks the completion of this leg of the construction efforts, which was deemed to be one of the most complex. The completion of mirror polishing represents o... |
1 July 2011
04:30 GMT |
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Earlier this week, the NASA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) program achieved an important milestone, when the first batch of segments that will go on to form the spacecraft's main mirror managed to successfully pass cryogenic tests.
The assessments were designed in such a way that they mimicked the conditi... |
18 June 2011
06:38 GMT |
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The hardware structure that will support the scientific payload on the American space agency's next-generation space telescope has recently been put through its paces at a NASA science facility. The component managed to finish all assessments with flying colors. The reason why NASA is conducting these tests is t... |
27 May 2011
10:57 GMT |
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Astronomers operating the Hubble Space Telescope believe they may have just discovered the oldest galaxy in the Universe. It appears in an ultra-deep field image taken with the powerful observatory, and initial estimates place it at a distance of about 13.2 billion light-years. This means that the light it emits bega... |
6 May 2011
09:56 GMT |
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This week marks an important milestone for the James Webb Space Telescope project, say mission managers at NASA. The first six of 18 mirror segments on the future observatory are scheduled to begin non-stop cryogenic tests.JWST will feature a large primary mirror assembly, which will have a diameter of 6.5 meters (21... |
15 April 2011
03:24 GMT |
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Scientists with the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) announce that they have just received two brand-new mirrors at their facility. The devices are unique, and their role is to enable the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to see farther into the cosmic past than possible before. The observatory is currently sc... |
14 April 2011
10:31 GMT |
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The effort to construct the massive James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has reached a critical mission milestone on April 6. Engineers managed to complete the construction of a giant structural steel frame, that will act as a stand for the components of the flight optics system. What the huge assembly will do is it wil... |
7 April 2011
04:49 GMT |
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As the American space agency is continuing to develop the most advanced telescope the world has ever seen, some interesting things about the instrument are beginning to pop up. One of them is the fact that its sunshield provides the best Sun Protection Factor (SPF) in the Universe.The most important thing about the J... |
22 March 2011
05:28 GMT |
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The first of the next generation of space telescopes has just underwent a new series of extreme tests, meant to assess whether or not it's ready to endure the bumpy road to space. The chassis of the new instrument passed the assessments with flying colors.The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a joint endeavor o... |
9 March 2011
04:46 GMT |
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Officials at the American space agency are hopeful that their next space observatory will be able to exceed all existing telescopes, and peer farther and deeper into the early days of the Universe.
The instrument could for example confirm the finding of the oldest galaxy yet, which astronomers operating the NASA ... |
1 February 2011
01:49 GMT |
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Representatives from the American space agency announce that an ambitious project to construct a telescope capable of detecting dark energy will need to be postponed for about a decade, due to cost overruns and mismanagement of another NASA project. According to the officials, construction on the James Webb Space Tel... |
4 January 2011
03:30 GMT |
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According to a recent cost analysis, it would appear that the next-generation space telescope that the American space agency is building will cost some $1.5 billion more than originally estimated. The panel that conducted the study says that the planned launch date will also slip further away, by 15 months minimum.Th... |
11 November 2010
02:35 GMT |
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Work on the James Webb Space Telescope, the successor of the renowned Hubble telescope, are progressing smoothly in the United States, but NASA experts wanted to know what sights the observatory will be able to see. A new series of simulations shows that.When completed, in a couple of years, the telescope will be the... |
4 November 2010
07:50 GMT |
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When completed, the James Webb Space Telescope will be the most complex space observatory ever built, and ensuring that this will happen on time is a new Mission Systems Engineering team.The group is made up of experts at Northrop Grumman, the main contractor the American space agency selected for this project, and t... |
19 October 2010
09:20 GMT |
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Experts working on constructing the next-generation NASA space telescope say that the spacecraft's sunshield, an essential component in the mission, has just passed another series of critical review tests. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is planned as a replacement for the Hubble Space Telescope, and it is... |
9 October 2010
06:57 GMT |
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A group of engineers in the United Kingdom, at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), have begun subjecting one of the instruments that will go on the JWST to space-like conditions. The Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) is one of the critical components of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which is touted as th... |
4 October 2010
10:09 GMT |
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