SOFIA Stratospheric Astronomy Telescope In Doubt
Columbia, Maryland (SPX) Feb 09, 2006
NASA's newest airborne observatory is scheduled to begin test flights this fall, assuming no technical glitches emerge, but its status in fiscal year 2007 remains highly in doubt, the agency's new budget proposal shows.
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Hubble Snaps Images Of A Pinwheel-Shaped Galaxy
Baltimore Md. (SPX) Feb 7, 2006
Looking like a child's pinwheel ready to be set a spinning by a gentle breeze, the Hubble Space Telescope has captured fine details of spiral galaxy NGC 1309, seen face-on.
NASA Postpones Or Kills Several Major Projects
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 7, 2006
NASA's budget request for fiscal year 2007 includes postponement or abandonment of several key space-exploration programs, including the James Webb Space Telescope, which is intended as a partial replacement for the aging Hubble, and the Terrestrial Planet Finder, the giant telescope expected to be able to take photographs of Earthlike planets orbiting distant stars.
Telescope Fits Into Rocket Body To Improve Imagery
Kirtland Air Force Base NM (SPX) Jan 25, 2006
Positioning three delicate, circular mirrors to one one-thousandth of the width of a human hair consistently challenged scientists at the Space Vehicles Directorate, Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M.
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Carl Zeiss And Max Planck Researchers Develop Optical Technology For JWST
Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) Dec 09, 2005
Carl Zeiss Optronics, in Oberkochen, Germany, and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg (MPIA), are developing the main fine mechanical optical technology for two instruments to be part of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
Ball Aerospace Accelerates Focusing Techniques On James Webb Space Telescope
Boulder CO (SPX) Dec 07, 2005
Ball Aerospace engineers, under contract to Northrop Grumman Space Technology, are now accelerating the development of an optical testbed that will simulate the focusing characteristics of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
Hubble Takes Most Detailed Image Yet Of Crab Nebula
Baltimore MD (SPX) Nov 30, 2005
A new Hubble image - among the largest ever produced with the Earth-orbiting observatory - gives the most detailed view so far of the entire Crab Nebula. The Crab is arguably the single most interesting object, as well as one of the most studied, in all of astronomy.
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UCSC Physicists Deliver Detector For NASA's GLAST Telescope
Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Nov 09, 2005
After more than a decade of work, a team led by physicists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has completed a major detector subsystem for NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST).
Cosmic Cloudshine: Its Beauty Is More Than Skin Deep
Cambridge MA (SPX) Nov 04, 2005
Hubble's iconic images include many shots of cosmic clouds of gas and dust called nebulae. For example, the famous "Pillars of Creation" mark the birthplace of new stars within the Eagle Nebula. Yet despite their beauty, visible-light images show only the nebulae surfaces. Baby stars may hide beneath, invisible even to Hubble's powerful gaze.
Russia To Launch Satellite For World Space Observatory
Sanya, China (SPX) Nov 01, 2005
Russia is planning to build and put into orbit a satellite that will lay the foundation for the creation of the World Space Observatory (WSO), a project to explore deep space in the ultraviolet spectrum by 2008, a Russian senior space official said Monday, reports RIA Novosti.
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Proposed UOf Colorado Observatory Could Image Continents On Exo-Solar Planets
Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 12, 2005
A NASA institute charged with supporting novel space concepts that push the envelope with existing technology has chosen a University of Colorado at Boulder proposal to image distant planets around other stars for a second round of funding.
Mirror Segment For James Webb Space Telescope Delivered For Polishing
Redondo Beach CA (SPX) Oct 07, 2005
Manufacturing of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) progressed further with the delivery of the telescope's first mirror segment for grinding and polishing in late September.
Ottawa's EMS Wins Key Component Design Contract For NASA's JWST Telescope
Longueuil QC (SPX) Sep 30, 2005
The Canadian Space Agency recently awarded a $26.2-million contract to the Space and Technology Group of Ottawa-based EMS Technologies for the detailed design of a fine guidance sensor and a tuneable filter for NASA's next-generation space telescope.
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