B612 Foundation to Announce First Privately Funded Deep Space Mission “Announcement: On June 28, 2012, the B612 Foundation will announce its plans to build, operate and launch the world’s first […]
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These Are Not The Telescopes NASA Was Looking For
NRO Gifts NASA Two Leftover Space Telescopes, SpacePolicyOnline “The CAA’s response to the newswas rather muted. The reaction was surprisingly flat for a community that received a fairly valuable gift. […]
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Are NASA's New Telescopes NRO Future Imagery Architecture Leftovers?
Spy agency gives NASA two spare Hubbles, Washington Post “I’m told by a government engineer with knowledge of the new instruments that they’re “a successful part of an otherwise failed […]
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NASA's Two New Space Telescopes: Gifts or Headaches?
NASA’s Stubby Hubbles and Fumbled PR “Moore said that the hardware had been “declassified” so that NASA could use it. So, I asked, since it was “declassified”, what the names […]
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NRO Gives NASA Two Hubble-Class Telescopes (Shh!)
NASA gets two military spy telescopes for astronomy, Washington Post “The U.S. government’s secret space program has decided to give NASA two telescopes as big as, and even more powerful […]
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Webb Space Telescope Events on Capitol Hill Today
Panel Discussion: U.S. Leadership in Astronomy: Space Telescopes Today, Tomorrow and Beyond “Featuring: Eric Smith, NASA Headquarters, Dr. John Grunsfeld, Deputy Director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, Dr. Meg […]
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Webb Community Webinar: Happy Talk and Denial
James Webb Space Telescope Q&A Session: A Town Hall Webinar Astronomers Plead for Space Telescope’s Life, Wired “Initially estimated to cost approximately $1 billion in 1996, recent calculations for the […]
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Supernova Homer?
New Supernova Remnant Lights Up “Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers are witnessing the unprecedented transition of a supernova to a supernova remnant, where light from an exploding star in […]
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16 Super-Earths Discovered
50 New Exoplanets Discovered by HARPS including 16 New Super-Earths “Astronomers using ESO’s world-leading exoplanet hunter HARPS have today announced a rich haul of more than 50 new exoplanets, including […]
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Webb Costs Are Fragmenting The Space & Planetary Science Community
Planetary scientists: Webb telescope not too big to fail, Nature “The internecine warfare among NASA scientists over the fate of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has begun. The rising […]