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Sunshield Layers Installed on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope as Mirror Cryo Cooling Testing Commences
The complex multilayered sunshield that will protect the delicate optics and state of the art infrared science instruments of NASA’s…
NASA Webb Telescope Resumes Rigorous Vibration Qualification Tests
Engineers have resumed a series of critical and rigorous vibration qualification tests on NASA’s mammoth James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)…
Massive Ariane 5 To Launch Giant NextGen Telescope In Dynamic Deployment To L2
The Ariane 5 rocket will carry the James Webb Space Telescope into orbit and send it on its way to…
First Mirror Installed on NASA’s Webb Telescope, Final Assembly Phase Starts
After years of construction, the first of 18 primary flight mirrors has been installed onto NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope…
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NASA vs. Cigarettes: A Numbers Game
People often criticize the amount of money spent on space exploration. Sometimes it's well-meaning friends and family who say that…
NASA Webb Telescope Construction Leaps Forward with Delivery of Mirror Holding Backbone Flight Structure
View showing actual flight structure of mirror backplane unit for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) that holds 18 segment…
Workaholic Hubble Telescope Will Eventually Burn To Death: Report
The Hubble Space Telescope has delivered an amazing near quarter-century of science from all over the universe. Even this year,…
Watch the James Webb Telescope Being Built Via “Webb-cam”
Want to watch the highly anticipated James Webb Space Telescope come together? NASA has set up a webcam – in…
Meet MIRI, Infrared Camera for Webb Telescope
Our friend Will Gater from the BBC's Sky At Night Magazine had the chance to get a behind-the-scenes tour of…
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Budget Axe to Gore America’s Future Exploration of Mars and Search for Martian Life
[/caption] America’s hugely successful Mars Exploration program is apparently about to be gutted by Obama Administration officials wielding a hefty…