Next Generation Space Telescope


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Next Generation Space Telescope

(NGST) See James Webb Space Telescope.
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LD: There are a host of new missions to be launched, such as the Space Infrared Telescope Facility and Next Generation Space Telescope.
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When it is launched as early as 2007, the Next Generation Space Telescope - the planned successor to the Hubble Space Telescope - will offer astronomers a tantalizing window on the early universe.
First glimpse
NASA is also seeking a way to produce infrared sensor mosaics for its Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST).
Rockwell Scientific and UMC Develop Ultra Large CMOS Readout Ic for Infrared Astronomy Applications
For the next 10 years or so, there's no way to beat the expected performance of the Next Generation Space Telescope at visible wavelengths," says Ellerbroek, referring to the proposed 6-meter successor to the Hubble Space Telescope (recently downsized from 8 meters).
Adaptive optics come of age
Or, it might take an instrument such as the Next Generation Space Telescope, the proposed follow-up mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, Loeb says.
An Illuminating Journey
RSC designed this multiplexer to build the focal plane arrays for possible use on NASA's Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST), which will be the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope.
Rockwell Scientific Awarded $4.4 Million to Develop World-Class Detectors for Ground-Based Astronomy
Their models may be tested one day with the Next Generation Space Telescope, though some believe that the job calls for the Supernova Acceleration Probe (SNAP), a proposed space-based telescope dedicated to discovering large numbers of extremely distant supernovae.
Farthest supernova clinches case for accelerating Universe
He emphasizes that these galaxies are so dim that measuring their distances may require Hubble's successor, the Next Generation Space Telescope, which is not scheduled for launch until 2007.
Infrared camera goes the distance
A team led by Lockheed Martin Space Systems has submitted a proposal to the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) for the Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST), a key mission in NASA's Origins Program.
Lockheed Martin Team Proposes Innovative Low-risk Design for NASA's Next Generation Space Telescope
Meanwhile, work on Hubble's successor, the Next Generation Space Telescope, is under way.
Mission update
They call the proposed instrument the Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST).
After Hubble: the Next Generation: probing the final frontier
In addition to Chandra, the company is currently developing designs and technologies for several of NASA's future space astronomy missions, including the Next Generation Space Telescope, the Space Interferometry Mission and Terrestrial Planet Finder, all part of NASA's Origins program; Constellation-X, the successor mission to Chandra; and the Gamma Ray Large Area Space Telescope, the follow-on mission to the TRW-built Compton Gamma Ray Observatory.
NASA/TRW/Smithsonian Chandra X-ray Observatory Team Extends ``Honors List'' with 2000 AIAA Space Systems Award

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