The James Webb Space Telescope

News Archive

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News Archive
(our older news items)
NASA Press Releases & Features
(links to NASA-written press releases)
JWST in the Press
(links to articles in outside publications which feature JWST)

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2009 News Archive

22 September 2009: Engineers to Practice on Webb Telescope Simulator. Read the Press Release!

15 September 2009: The flight ISIM structure (which houses the instruments) has been delivered to Goddard Space Flight Center for testing. Read the press release.

03 September 2009: The Hubble Space Telescope (and Webb Telescope) traveling exhibit is going to be at the Ocean Explorium in New Bedford, MA and runs Oct 9 - Jan 17. Check out museum's website for more info!

03 August 2009: We have 17 new artist's conception of JWST! Check them out!

15 September 2009: The flight ISIM structure (which houses the instruments) has been delivered to Goddard Space Flight Center for testing. Read the press release.

2009 News Archive

2008 News Archive

2007 News Archive

2006 News Archive

2005 News Archive

NASA Press Releases and Features

October 1, 2009 - NASA's New Views of the Universe Exhibit Travels to the Ocean Explorium.
September 22, 2009 - Engineers to Practice on Webb Telescope Simulator
September 15, 2009 - James Webb Space Telescope Begins to Take Shape at Goddard
July 31, 2009 - NASA Chills: James Webb Space Telescope Mirrors Are Readied for Test
July 15, 2009 - Keeping a 'Trained Eye' on the James Webb Space Telescope
July 1, 2009 - Nobel Prize Winner and NASA's Blueshift Podcast Take You on a Data Journey
May 13, 2009 - NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Unfolds by Animation
April 28, 2009 - NASA Launches James Webb Space Telescope Educational On-Line Game
April 8, 2009 - James Webb Space Telescope First Flight Mirror Completes Cryogenic Testing
Mar. 12, 2009 - Recipe for the Perfect James Webb Space Telescope Mirror
Feb. 9, 2009 - James Webb Space Telescope's Actual 'Spine' Now Being Built
Dec. 10, 2008 - The Incredible Journey of the James Webb Space Telescope
Dec. 10, 2008 - James Webb Telescope Mirrors Chill Out at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
Nov. 12, 2008 - Super-Tough Sunshield to Fly on the James Webb Space Telescope
Sept. 17, 2008 - Shake, Rattle and Roll: James Webb Telescope Components Pass Tests
Mar. 20, 2008 - NASA'S Webb Telescope Sunshield Preliminary Design Review Complete
Dec. 6, 2007 - James Webb Space Telescope Testing to Find Infrared Light for Christmas
Dec. 3, 2007 - James Webb Space Telescope Marks Successful Completion of Optical Telescope Element Design Review
Oct. 25, 20078 - NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Gets 'Spacewired'
Aug. 28, 2007 - Software Coordinates 19 Mirrors, Focuses James Webb Space Telescope
Aug. 21, 2007 - NASA Highlights James Webb Space Telescope at SPIE Meeting
Jun. 21, 2007 - NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Visits Ireland
Jun. 13, 2007 - Construction Begins on the James Webb Space Telescope's Guidance Sensor and Imager
May 2, 2007 - Ten Inventions Created for James Webb Space Telescope Approved
Mar. 19, 2007 - NASA's Harvey Moseley Receives AAS Joseph Weber Award
Feb. 7, 2007 - NASA's Largest Space Telescope Mirror Will See Deeper Into Space
Jan. 30, 2007 - James Webb Space Telescope's "Spine" Passes Health Tests
Jan. 24, 2007 - NASA Helps Space Telescope Camera "Squint" for a Better View of Galaxies

JWST in the Press

This section is primarily to archive feature articles on JWST.

The American Surveyor Magazine, A Model Home For NASA's New Space Telescope, May 2009. (pdf)
CNN: Money, James Webb Space Telescope Sunshield Passes Preliminary Design Review, Moves Into Detailed Design Phase, March 2009.
Hubble - The Next Generation: The James Webb Space Telescope, The International Space Fellowship, January 2008.
Astronomers hope new scope will gaze into infinity, beyond, AZ Starnet Septemer 2007.
Thin films and MEMS Devices Enable the James Webb Space Telescope, Vacuum Technology and Coating Magazine, p50-57, August 2007.
Building a Telescope to Supplant Hubble, Photonics Spectra, August 2007.
Son of Hubble, Prepare for a 2013 Liftoff, Wired, July 2007.
Shooting for the Stars With the Webb Telescope, The Washington Post, February 2007.
The James Webb Space Telescope Model Gets Around, Space Daily, January 2007.
Nobel physicist focuses on Hubble's heir, MSNBC, January 2007.
"IR focal-plane arrays enable imaging that is out of this world " (.pdf link), Laser Focus World, October 2007.