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
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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
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The European Space Agency's (EAS) Gaia spacecraft has recently achieved an impressive milestone in its development, when its sunshield was deployed for the very first time. Mission controllers say that the probe remains well on track for a 2013 launch.
At first, the name Gaia stood for Global Astrometric Inter... |
8 December 2011
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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
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Designing and building the world's largest, space-based observatory to date – the James Webb Space Telescope – is no easy task. Numerous technologies have to be produced specifically for this mission, and the sunshield that will protect the spacecraft from stray solar radiation is one of them. Thus f... |
6 March 2010
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will be the largest observation instrument ever delivered into space during a single rocket launch. Only the International Space Station (ISS) will exceed it in size, but it will come nowhere near its capabilities of observing the early Universe in infrared wavelengths. But, in a... |
3 February 2010
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