Construction Begins on the James Webb Space Telescope's Guidance Sensor and Imager
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To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORS  Contact: Rob Gutro of NASA, +1-301-286-4044   GREENBELT, Md., June 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Canadian Space Agency has awarded a $39 million contract to COM DEV International Ltd. to build two important instruments on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
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The U.S. National Radio Astronomy Observatory and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are joining forces to enhance astronomy.
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NASA has given the go-ahead to a Canadian firm to work on a possible robot-salvage mission to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The contract is valued at &#36;154 million and builds on the space robotics work of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) Ltd through its MD Robotics group in Brampton, Ontario.
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Support is growing for a human mission to be sent to repair the Hubble space telescope instead of robots.
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UK space scientists and engineers design a mission to investigate a potentially hazardous asteroid.
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-- NASA's chief is urging his Hubble Space Telescope team to press ahead with plans for a robotic repair mission to the aging observatory, saying, "Let's go save the Hubble."    Administrator Sean O'Keefe says he will ask Congress for money to accomplish the job. He estimates it will take about $1 billion to $1.6 billion to develop and launch a robot to make the needed upgrades to keep the popular telescope running and to get it out of orbit once its work is through...
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A European satellite designed to improve weather forecasting has been given a new launch date.
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A TNO engineer prepares to start capturing images for the world's biggest digital photo.
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A new space observatory is preparing for a mid-November spaceflight despite setbacks caused by hurricanes that washed across its Florida launch pad.
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Upgraded sensor technologies will mean sharper pictures, even in low-light environments.
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On its 11-day Hubble mission in August, NASA says engineers will install a pair of new scientific instruments and attempt to fix two older modules that produced important work before failing.
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NASA is readying a mission to the dwarf planet Ceres and its asteroid cousin Vesta.
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Shuttle astronauts would do a better job of upgrading NASA (news - web sites)&#39;s aging Hubble Space Telescope (news - web sites) than space-faring robots -- with
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U.S. scientists say the spine of the James Webb Space Telescope has become the largest structure ever tested in freezing conditions.
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Scientists who have peered through space to a time when light first filled the universe urged NASA on Thursday to ensure a Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission includes a next generation infrared camera.
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Two Canadian companies will help build a key component of the nest telescope of US National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA), Canadian Space Agency said in a press release Friday.
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NASA's Messenger probe sends scientists a treasure-trove of data, and with two more flybys and an orbital mission to follow, these images are just the beginning.