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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

Astronomers Use NASA Space Telescopes to Solve Missing Water Mystery in Exoplanets

A survey of 10 hot, Jupiter-sized exoplanets conducted with NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes has led a team to solve a long-standing mystery -- why some of these worlds seem to have less water than expected. The findings offer new insights into the wide range of planetary atmospheres in our galaxy and how planets are assembled.

16 Dec 2015

James Webb Space Telescope Completes Second Super-Cold Optical Test

Recently, the James Webb Space Telescope's "pathfinder telescope," or "Pathfinder" completed its second super-cold optical test that resulted in the first checkout of specialized optical test equipment designed to illuminate the telescope's optics through to the instrument focal planes, and the procedures used to operate this test equipment.

1 Dec 2015

First of 18 Flight Mirrors Installed onto the James Webb Space Telescope

NASA has successfully installed the first of 18 flight mirrors onto the James Webb Space Telescope, beginning a critical piece of the observatory’s construction.

26 Nov 2015

PTB Measures Thermal Expansion of Ceramics in Space Telescope Mirrors with High Accuracy

Space holds numerous fascinating objects which we can only investigate by observing their radiation – even beyond the visible range. For space telescopes such as the European Space Agency's (ESA) infrared observatory Herschel, whose mission is to observe radiation in the far-infrared, cooling the instruments is of vital importance, since the instruments themselves must not emit disturbing infrared radiation.

25 Nov 2015