If you have ever attended a club star party or an amateur astronomy convention, you have undoubtedly strolled through an observing field. Scattered throughout are silhouettes of telescopes and ...
While some complex production processes can take days or weeks, creating something as monumental as the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) is in its own realm with individual steps measured in months and ...
Oct. 4, 2010, 1:45 PM UTC / Source: GlobeNewswire REDONDO BEACH, Calif., Oct. 4, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The first flight mirror segment for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope's (JWST) primary mirror ...
Manufacturing of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) progressed further with the delivery of the telescope’s first mirror segment for grinding and polishing in late September. Northrop Grumman ...
Cambridge Technology, based in Taunton in the United Kingdom, is a manufacturer of precision Beryllium mirrors. The company recently outlined how employing best-in-class interferometry hardware and ...