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NASA to Provide Update on James Webb Space Telescope

By Doug Messier

Parabolic Arc

July 15, 2020

Filed under Canadian Space Agency, CSA, Eric Smith, ESA, European Space Agency, Gregory Robinson, James Webb Space Telescope, NASA, Steve Jurczyk, Thomas Zurbuchen

Following the complete assembly of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, testing teams performed a comprehensive systems evaluation which allowed them to confidently assess Webb’s software and electronic performance as a single fully connected vehicle. (Credits: NASA/Chris Gunn)

WASHINGTON (NASA PR) — NASA will host a media teleconference at 4:30 p.m. EDT Thursday, July 16, to provide an update on the status of the agency’s James Webb Space Telescope, the world’s next premier infrared space observatory and the largest, most complex space telescope for astronomy ever built.

The media teleconference audio will stream live at:

https://www.nasa.gov/live

Participants in the teleconference include:

Stephen Jurczyk, NASA associate administrator
Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA Science Mission Directorate associate administrator
Gregory Robinson, NASA Webb program director
Eric Smith, NASA Webb program scientist

Once deployed, Webb will help solve mysteries in our solar system and look beyond to distant worlds around other stars, as well as probe the mysterious structures and origins of our universe. Webb is an international program led by NASA with its partners ESA (European Space Agency) and the Canadian Space Agency.

For more information on Webb, go to:

https://www.nasa.gov/webb

Doug Messier