![Congress Criticizes Spending on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope]()
...We’re not talking about doing eight [James Webb Space Telescopes] where you get economies-of-scale; this was a unique observatory to do specific science goals.” With Webb consuming some 42 percent...
![Editorial | Stay on Top of the James Webb Space Telescope]()
...comment on reports of instrument delivery delays on the agency’s flagship astronomy observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope. Mr. Bolden’s response: “That’s news to me.” That was the wrong answer....
![NASA struggling to get James Webb Space Telescope across the finish line]()
...and drove it several kilometers away to the sprawling Space Park campus of Northrop Grumman. Inside STTARS was the optical telescope assembly for the James Webb Space Telescope, including its...
![Ariane 5 launches NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope]()
...destination beyond the moon after a long-anticipated launch Dec. 25. An Ariane 5 lifted off from the European spaceport at Kourou, French Guiana, at 7:20 a.m. Eastern. The James Webb...
![Senate Panel Restores James Webb Space Telescope Funding]()
WASHINGTON — A U.S. Senate panel has proposed giving NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) about $150 million more for 2012 than the White House requested for the overbudget project,...
![The James Webb Space Telescope finally takes shape]()
...growing increasingly excited about the progress the James Webb Space Telescope was making towards a launch then expected in late 2018. A town hall session about the mission spent only...
![Manufacturing Issues Plague James Webb Space Telescope]()
WASHINGTON — Manufacturing difficulties plagued major elements of the James Webb Space Telescope this year, forcing prime contractor Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems to rebuild key structural elements declared unfit for...
...yet to formally reinstate a long-planned space shuttle mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope and the launch of its successor, the James Webb Space Telescope, had just been delayed...
![Editorial | Nothing To Hide on James Webb Space Telescope]()
Northrop Should Rethink Refusal To Allow GAO To Interview Project Staff The latest of the U.S. Government Accountability Office’s annual status reports on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope served as...
NASA astrophysicist Amber Straughn speaks at the Library of Congress about the transition from the Hubble Space Telescope to the James Webb Space Telescope and the successor’s implications for scientific...
![‘Hubble Hugger’ at the Helm]()
...we’ve turned cost estimation and schedule estimation into a science. Why does the James Webb Space Telescope cost $9 billion? JWST artist’s concept. Credit: NASA The James Webb Space Telescope...
![Astro2020: A decadal survey that spans decades]()
...recommended NASA pursue missions such as the Hubble Space Telescope, James Webb Space Telescope and, in the most recent report in 2010, the Roman Space Telescope. As part of the...
...off a looming budget crisis on the James Webb Space Telescope, are considering easing up on requirements for a number of program elements including schedule, test procedures and the polishing...
...be said that STSI is the center of the Hubble universe, the same certainly goes for Hubble’s successor, the James Webb Space Telescope. Slated for launch in 2013 aboard a...
...design the telescope to accommodate a visit from Orion. According to Weiler, it is. “We are going to design for the James Webb Space Telescope a little ring that the...
...repairs and upgrades during an 11-day mission. The servicing should keep the telescope operable through 2013 when the James Webb Space Telescope is scheduled for launch. The Endeavour will be...
![House Proposal To Kill Webb Telescope Sets Stage for Showdown with Senate]()
WASHINGTON — Congressional backers of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are preparing to defend the flagship NASA science mission against House budget hawks who intend to pull the plug...
![House Proposal To Kill Webb Telescope Sets Stage for Showdown with Senate]()
WASHINGTON — Congressional backers of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are preparing to defend the flagship NASA science mission against House budget hawks who intend to pull the plug...
![JWST Could Confirm Oldest Galaxy – If It Overcomes Budget Woes]()
...get the same level of confidence, we’ll need the James Webb Space Telescope,” he said. “This is incredibly faint. We can’t do anything with our current ground-based telescopes on this.”...
![Astrophysics decadal survey recommends a program of flagship space telescopes]()
...more powerful than existing telescopes in service today and comparable with the European Extremely Large Telescope being built in Chile. Both the Giant Magellan Telescope and Thirty Meter Telescope, funded...
