NASA may be ready to launch the Habitable Worlds Observatory around the time JWST's fuel runs out.
JWST has enough fuel on board to operate at the Earth-Sun L-2 point for another two decades.
JWST began its science operations in mid-2022 from a location 1.5 million kilometers away from Earth.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was launched on Christmas Day, 2021.
The Edison architecture was influential in the design considerations for the next-generation space telescope, later known as JWST.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was nearly $10 billion and marked its first anniversary of releasing science images last Thursday.
Senators Shaheen and Moran helped establish a new cost cap of $8.8 billion for JWST after it broke an earlier $8 billion cap during development.
The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) presented two 'Champions for Astronomy' awards to Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Jerry Moran (R-KS) for their support in keeping JWST on track.
JWST is capable of detecting faint light from incredibly distant stars and galaxies.
JWST has found hundreds of galaxies that flooded the universe with light in the first 700 million years after the Big Bang.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is designed to help researchers study the formation of the first stars and galaxies after the Big Bang.
During the collision of NASA’s DART spacecraft with the asteroid Dimorphos in September 2022, JWST tracked the asteroid at a rate of 110 milliarcseconds per second.
There have been 21 micrometeoroid impacts on JWST's mirrors to date, with one in May 2021 being larger than expected.
JWST uses the DSN for eight hours out of every 24.
JWST plans to implement an 'avoidance zone' during Cycle 2 of observations to mitigate future micrometeoroid impacts.
JWST has been reported to meet or exceed its specifications on sensitivity, stability, and resolution.
A safe mode was triggered in JWST’s attitude control system on December 7 due to an unusual sequence of events, but the issue has since been resolved.
Micrometeoroid impacts have had a very small effect on the quality of images produced by JWST.
JWST was designed to track moving objects at a rate of up to 30 milliarcseconds per second.
JWST communicates with the Deep Space Network (DSN), downloading an average of 57 gigabytes of data per day.