The time has finally arrived — after years of development, engineering, troubleshooting and problem solving plus collaboration between dozens of countries, organizations, and universities — as the James Webb Space Telescope is scheduled to launch on December 22, 2021 from Read More
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Reaching Orbit – James Webb Space Telescope
Posted on May 6th, 2014NASA’s Hubble Telescope is one step closer to being relieved by its successor, the James Webb Space Telescope, after 24 years and counting in space. The last main instrument on the Webb Telescope was installed in April, the Near-Infrared Spectrograph Read More
Out Of This World – New Telescope Technology
Posted on June 6th, 2023One of our favorite things here at Apollo Mapping is keeping up with new science and space technology. It’s just such cool stuff! This month, we’re excited to share with you some amazing new technology that could revolutionize telescopes as Read More
Out of This World – Webb’s Clearest Images of Neptune’s Rings
Posted on October 4th, 2022This Voyager 2 image of Neptune shows a cold and dark wind-whipped world. In 1989, NASA’s Voyager 2 became the first and only spacecraft to observe the planet Neptune, passing about 3,000 miles above the planet’s north pole.A view of Read More
Out of This World – Webb’s First Images
Posted on August 9th, 2022A view of the Carina Nebula NGC 3324 from the Webb Telescope. (Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA and the Space Telescope Science Institute [STScI]) The time has finally arrived! NASA released the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope in Read More
Reaching Orbit – Thirty Meter Telescope
Posted on November 4th, 2014While I have been waxing poetic about the James Webb Space Telescope, set to launch in 2018, there is another massive telescope that has been in the works. This time it is a ground based telescope that will dwarf its Read More
Out of This World – Cool Tech: A Year in Review
Posted on January 10th, 2023Happy New Year everyone! We’re super excited to see what the new year has in store, especially in the world of emerging technologies. Webb captured the birth of a star, called a protostar, in the pinched area of dust and Read More
Out of This World – Psyche, the Metallic Asteroid Hunter, Announces Launch Delay
Posted on July 13th, 2022Illustration of the Psyche probe. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU) NASA was set to launch a giant probe the size of a tennis court to the Asteroid Belt by the end of 2022, but in late June NASA announced they would not make Read More
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