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ESFRI Route Map 2016 Includes European Solar Telescope Project

Today, March 10th, an official announcement was made about the updating of the ESFRI (Forum for a European Strategy in Research Inrastructures) route map at a meeting in Amsterdam. This route map includes the EST (European Solar Telescope) project, together with five other projects (ACTRIS, DANUBIUS-RI, E-RIHS, EMPHASIS Y KM3NeT 2.0) and two others which are considered to be emblematic (CERN LHC Y ESRF EBS).

14 Mar 2016

NASA Selects Ball Aerospace to Deliver Concept Study for WFIRST Observatory

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been selected by NASA to deliver a concept study for the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) Wide Field Instrument (WFI), the agency's next major astrophysics project to follow the 2018 launch of the James Webb Space Telescope.

14 Mar 2016

Secondary Mirror Installed onto NASA's James Webb Space Telescope

The sole secondary mirror that will fly aboard NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was installed onto the telescope at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, on March 3, 2016.

9 Mar 2016

More Components of Webb Telescope to be Integrated onto Spacecraft over Next Two Years

The year 2015 marked big progress on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and there are still a number of large milestones before the next generation telescope is launched in 2018.

26 Feb 2016

CANYVAL-X Mission Demonstrating Virtual-Telescope Tech Expected to Launch in Mid-2016

NASA engineers Neerav Shah and Phil Calhoun will realize a long-held ambition later this year when a Space-X launch vehicle deploys two tiny satellites that will fly in a precise formation to create, in effect, a single or "virtual" telescope benefitting a range of scientific disciplines.

19 Feb 2016

James Webb Space Telescope Can Help Take Planetary Science to New Level

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will look across vast distances to find the earliest stars and galaxies and study the atmospheres of mysterious worlds orbiting other stars. But the observatory also will investigate objects in Earth's own neighborhood - planets, moons, comets and asteroids in our solar system.

9 Feb 2016

Spectrum Optix Engages Ruda Cardinal to Construct First-of-its-Kind Digital Telescope Prototype

Elissa Resources Ltd. ("Elissa") and Spectrum Optix Inc. of Calgary, Canada ("Spectrum" and together with Elissa, the "Companies") are pleased to provide an update on their goal of delivering a proof-of-concept prototype (POC) for imaging in the second quarter of 2016.

13 Jan 2016

Twelfth Flight Mirror Installed on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope

One dozen flight mirrors are now installed on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, out of the eighteen mirror segments that make up the primary mirror. The assembly of the primary mirror is an important milestone for the Webb telescope, but is just one component of this huge and complex observatory.

8 Jan 2016

Optimised Lenses for Very Large Formats

Resolve Optics has developed a specialist lens system designed to provide high resolution performance for very large format cameras and sensor arrays in excess of 200mm diametersuch as are used in aerial surveying.

From Resolve Optics Ltd. 5 Jan 2016

Ninth Flight Mirror Installed on James Webb Space Telescope

Inside NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center's massive clean room in Greenbelt, Maryland, the ninth flight mirror was installed onto the telescope structure with a robotic arm. This marks the halfway completion point for the James Webb Space Telescope's segmented primary mirror.

29 Dec 2015

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