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NASA to Provide Update on James Webb Space Telescope

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Jul 15, 2020
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The fully assembled James Webb Space Telescope with its sunshield and unitized pallet structures
The fully assembled James Webb Space Telescope with its sunshield and unitized pallet structures that will fold up around the telescope for launch. Credits: NASA

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 

To participate, media must email their name and affiliation to Felicia Chou at felicia.chou@nasa.gov by noon EDT Thursday, July 16. 
 

The James Webb Space Telescope is your eye-piece to the uncharted, unknown, and unimagined. This video is an overview of the mission, its goals, and its challenges. Credits: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

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

 
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Felicia Chou
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-0257
felicia.chou@nasa.gov