By Emily Carney, on March 22nd, 2016
NASA engineer Ernie Wright looks on as the first six of eighteen flight ready James Webb Space Telescope’s primary mirror segments are prepped to begin final cryogenic testing at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center (photo previously published). Photo Credit: NASA/MSFC/David Higginbotham
Less than 36 months from its launch, the James Webb Space Telescope […]
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By Emily Carney, on February 4th, 2016
From NASA: “Inside a massive clean room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland the James Webb Space Telescope team used a robotic am to install the last of the telescope’s 18 mirrors onto the telescope structure.” NASA/Chris Gunn
Construction of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a NASA, European Space […]
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By Emily Carney, on January 8th, 2016
Less than three years from its launch, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), continues to take shape. As 2015 rolled into 2016, engineers working on the JWST have been busy testing one of its essential science components. On […]
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By Emily Carney, on December 19th, 2015
The massive Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket, seen here in action, is now contracted to launch the James Webb Space Telescope from ESA’s launch site in French Guiana. The rocket and its multi-billion dollar space observatory, if launched on the current schedule, will fly into early morning skies from the edge of the Amazon […]
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By Emily Carney, on August 22nd, 2015 From ESA: “This image shows two polished test mirror segments being inspected by an optical engineer: one segment with the gold coating already applied, the other without. In the meantime, the coating of all 18 mirrors has been completed.” Photo Credit: NASA/C. Gunn
While the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) recently celebrated 25 years […]
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By Emily Carney, on August 13th, 2014 From the ISEE-3 Reboot Project: “An artist’s rendering depicts the satellite ISEE-3/ICE during its planned lunar fly-by in August 2014.” This past weekend, ISEE-3 made its flyby and waved “goodbye” to the Earth-Moon system. Image Credit: Mark Maxwell/ISEE-3 Reboot Project
Only a few days after one of its successors approached a comet in […]
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By Emily Carney, on July 10th, 2014 From the ISEE-3 Reboot Project: “An artist’s rendering depicts the satellite ISEE-3/ICE during its planned lunar fly-by in August 2014.” Image Credit: Mark Maxwell/ISEE-3 Reboot Project
While the spacecraft may have been frozen in time, the excitement over its reawakening was brand new.
But the effort to re-purpose the long-dormant International Sun-Earth Explorer-3 […]
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By Emily Carney, on May 26th, 2014 This diagram shows the torturous path the ISEE-3 (later ICE) spacecraft made over its 19-year operational life. NASA recently signed an agreement with the ISEE-3 Reboot Project team, who are working on breathing new life into the defunct spacecraft. Image Credit: NASA
On Wednesday, May 21, it was announced that NASA gave a […]
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