Telescopes

NASA's Next Generation Space Telescope Is Coming Together

PALO ALTO, Calif.- – An infrared camera designed with University of Arizona and Lockheed Martin [NYSE:LMT know-how, which will form the heart of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), has joined three other instruments at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) to be mounted in the nascent telescope structure. The Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) will function as the central imaging...

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U5 Machining Center Aids Search for Extraterrestrial Life

U5 Machining Center Aids Search for Extraterrestrial Life

Mirror for Kepler space telescope machined on MAG five-axis U5 universal machining center. Space craft on three-year mission to search galaxy for Earth-like planets. MAG Cincinnati's bridge-type U5 machining center demonstrated its accuracy and versatility by helping to produce the 1.4 m (4.5 ft) glass mirror for the recently-launched Kepler telescope. The three-year mission of the Kepler...

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Lockheed Martin Instrument Suite to Study Dynamic Solar Activity on New International Sun Mission

Lockheed Martin Instrument Suite to Study Dynamic Solar Activity on New International Sun Mission PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 18 -- A suite of instruments called the Focal Plane Package (FPP) -- designed and built at the Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory of the Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) Advanced Technology Center (ATC) in Palo Alto -- is scheduled for launch on the Solar-B satellite from the...

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