Thomas Zurbuchen is stepping down as associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate at the end of 2022 after being in the position since 2016. The space agency said Wednesday Zurbuchen is
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A Pasadena, California-based consortium of universities and research institutions representing five countries has raised $205 million to continue the development of a 12-story optical structure that will use multiple scientific instruments intended
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NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center is on the hunt for a new director after Dennis Andrucyk, who has led the Maryland-based research laboratory since January 2020, announced his plans to retire from
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Gregory Robinson, director of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Program since 2018, is set to retire on Friday after 33 years of service at the agency. As Webb program director, Robinson leads approximately
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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has generated an infrared image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, also known as Webb’s First Deep Field. The agency said Tuesday the deep field captured by the
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NASA has finished adjusting the course of its James Webb Space Telescope toward a final orbit around the L2 Lagrange point. Webb performed a mid-course burn where the spacecraft’s onboard thrusters fired
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NASA has announced the full deployment of the James Webb Space Telescope’s 20-foot primary mirror. The team responsible for the space observatory kicked off the unfolding process for the mirror on Friday,
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NASA has announced the full deployment of the James Webb Space Telescope’s 70-foot sunshield. The five-layered sunshield, which launched on Dec. 25th aboard an Ariane 5 rocket from the European Space Agency’s
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A mirror system and optical technology built by Ball Aerospace has launched aboard NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, which is meant to detect light from the first stars and galaxies to exist. The Webb
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NASA and Northrop Grumman engineers have completed the final testing phase for the James Webb Space Telescope and are preparing to ship the new observatory to a launch site in Kourou, French
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