Date: 8/05/2018 22:27:01
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1222804
Subject: NASA is Investigating a Self-Assembling Space Telescope

NASA is Investigating a Self-Assembling Space Telescope

NASA has some pretty advanced concepts in mind when it comes to the next generation of space telescopes. These include the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which recently took to space, as well as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) (scheduled to launch in 2020) and the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), which is still in development.

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Date: 9/05/2018 07:51:43
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1222836
Subject: re: NASA is Investigating a Self-Assembling Space Telescope

Tau.Neutrino said:


NASA is Investigating a Self-Assembling Space Telescope

NASA has some pretty advanced concepts in mind when it comes to the next generation of space telescopes. These include the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which recently took to space, as well as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) (scheduled to launch in 2020) and the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), which is still in development.

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Thank goodness that Trump’s plan to cancel all of NASA’s launches hasn’t shut all of these down. WFIRST is the much awaited successor to to enormously successful WISE.

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