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TRW design
Based on a proven technology for deploying large microwave antennae, the TRW design uses six hexagonal mirrors (10 feet or 3 meters between edges), which are stacked above a seventh central hexagonal...
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Lockheed-Martin design
This Lockheed-Martin design emphasizes simplicity and features a monolithic, 20-foot-wide (6 meters) primary mirror and rings of metal shields. The telescope would be launched into a highly elliptical...
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Ball Aerospace design
This design by Ball Aerospace features four widely separated sunshields that are effective in reducing the temperature of the telescope optics and the science instrument compartment. The deployable...
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Goddard Space Flight Center design
The Goddard Space Flight Center-led team developed this lightweight design for JWST. It incorporates many of the features found in the other designs: a deployable, 26-foot-wide (nearly 8 meters)...
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Proposed Designs for James Webb Space Telescope
Upper left: The Goddard Space Flight Center-led team developed this lightweight design for JWST. It incorporates many of the features found in the other designs: a deployable, 26-foot-wide (nearly 8...
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Closing in on distant, infant galaxies (artist's impression)
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is to many astronomers the space observatory of the next decade.
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Through the Eyes of JWST (simulation)
This is a simulated view of the far universe as seen through the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The photograph shows a simulated 20-hour observation with NGST of a random patch of the sky,...
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Cosmic timeline
Observatories continue to reach farther back in time to study the evolution of stars and galaxies. This illustration shows that the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced...
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The James Webb Space Telescope (artist's impression)
The blue coloured solar panels of the JWST are attached to the main spacecraft bus, which contains the propulsion subsystem...essential for maintaining the telescope's orbit.
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The James Webb Space Telescope (artist's impression)
3D rendering of the James Webb Space Telescope, showing the primary mirror and multi-layered sun shield.
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The James Webb Space Telescope (artist's impression)
The James Webb Space Telescope turning its attention to a nebula.
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The James Webb Space Telescope (artist's impression)
The James Web Space Telescope displaying its primary mirror, sun shield, solar panels and spacecraft bus.
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The James Webb Space Telescope (artist's impression)
The James Webb Space Telescope turns its sun shield towards our home star, protecting the optics from the glaring sunlight.
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Simulation of JWST performance
Billions and billions! A simulation of JWST's field of view shows galaxies with unprecedented clarity.
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The James Webb Space Telescope (artist's impression)
The James Webb Space Telescope observing the cosmos.
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The James Webb Space Telescope (artist's impression)
The main components of the James Webb Space Telescope.
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The James Webb Space Telescope (artist's impression)
The James Webb Space Telescope transits in front of the Milky Way.
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