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Canada Unveils its Contributions to the JWST

July 25, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Today Canada’s Minister of Industry Christian Paradis unveiled the technologies that comprise Canada’s contribution to the James Webb Space Telescope, a next-generation infrared observatory that’s seen as the successor to Hubble. Remove this ad

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Watch the James Webb Telescope Being Built Via “Webb-cam”

July 3, 2012

Want to watch the highly anticipated James Webb Space Telescope come together? NASA has set up a webcam – in this case a “Webb-cam” — for anyone to track the progress JWST inside a clean room at Goddard Space Flight Center. Recently, the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) was delivered and it will be integrated into the [...]

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Surprise! NASA Gets Two ‘Free’ Hubble-like Space Telescopes

June 4, 2012

NASA will be getting two unused space surveillance satellites from the US’s National Reconnaissance Office, which could possibly be used to search for dark energy. In articles in the Washington Post and the New York Times, NASA and NRO officials revealed the two unused and not-fully-built satellites are available for NASA to use as they [...]

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Meet MIRI, Infrared Camera for Webb Telescope

May 17, 2012

Our friend Will Gater from the BBC’s Sky At Night Magazine had the chance to get a behind-the-scenes tour of the facility that is building the Mid-Infrared Instrument on the long-awaited James Webb Space Telescope. You’ll meet MIRI inside clean room at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK, before it’s packaged up and sent [...]

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James Webb Mirrors Pass Deep-Freeze Exams

December 24, 2011

The last of the 21 mirrors for the James Webb Space Telescope have come out of deep freeze – literally! – and are now approved for space operations, a major milestone in the development of the next generation telescope that’s being hailed as the “successor to Hubble.” Remove this ad

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