In reality, however, JWST has been in operation for a little over a year, and NASA is celebrating its star's birthday with an image of a region of the night sky where actual stars are being born. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson remarked, "In just one year, the James Webb Space ...
JWST uses S-band at 2270.5 MHz to transmit telemetry. The science data will be transmitted in K-band at 25.9 GHz, with a rate of up to 28 Mbps. After launch, the first groundstation to pick the S-band signal from JWST was the 10 m antenna from the Italian Space Agency in Malindi...
WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 6, 2022 — Astronomers from the University of Exeter in the U.K. used NASA’s James Webb SpaceTelescopeto capture the first direct image of a planet outside our solar system. The image, shown through four different light filters, demonstrates how the telescope’si...
In 1996, NASA began construction on a large space telescope, which has been named theJames Webb Space Telescope(JWST). It is often described as the scientific successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. However, JWST will not replace Hubble, which is still in operation. The two instruments comple...