Media

Throughout the program and development for JWST and MIRI, press releases will be announced whenever major decisions or milestones are reached.

Press Releases & Media Coverage

09 May 2012 - BBC Report "James Webb telescope's 'first light' instrument ready to ship"

Fulll Article - One of Europe's main contributions to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is built and ready to ship to the US.(External Link)

09 May 2012 - First instrument for the JWST is completed and handed over to NASA

After more than ten years of work by more than 200 engineers, the Mid InfraRed Instrument (MIRI), a camera so sensitive it could see a candle on one of Jupiter’s moons, has been declared ready for delivery by the European Space Agency and NASA. The MIRI Optical System is an instrument for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) that will eventually take up a position four times further away from the Earth than the Moon. It will now be shipped to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center where it will be integrated with the other three instruments and the telescope

Full Press Release - First instrument for the JWST is completed and handed over to NASA

18 March 2010 - Hubble's successor one step closer to completion

A working replica of MIRI - the pioneering camera and spectrometer for the James Webb Space Telescope - has just been shipped (16th March) from the Science and Technology Facilities Council's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre, bringing the Webb telescope one small step closer to embarking on its journey into space where it will produce the sharpest images yet of the farthest depths of the cosmos.

Full Press Release - Hubble's successor one step closer to completion