Next Generation Space Telescope Home Page

★ wanayoo — archive 1999 http://ngst.gsfc.nasa.gov/

This is NASA's official web site for news and information about the space agency's Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST), a powerful space telescope that will replace the highly successful Hubble Space Telescope (HST) when it retires by mid-decade. Scheduled for launch in 2008, the 2700-kg telescope will carry cameras and spectrographs sensitive to infrared radiation. Over the telescope's 5-10 year lifetime astronomers hope to observe the farthest reaches of the universe.

Who's who
Contacts and project organization

Schedule
Project timelines and calendars

Engineering Teams
Links to groups working on NGST details

Online documents

Business Opportunities

Procurements
NGST and ISO 9000

NGST Partners

Canadian Space Agency
European Space Agency
Lockheed-Martin
TRW-Ball

NGST email lists:
Keep up to date with project progress

Public Information & Education

Science goals
Introduction to some specific science aims

Origins program goals.
Science plan for the NASA Origins program

Origins Education Forum
Educator and student resources for Origins

Working Group

Home-page, Documents, meetings
Ad Hoc Science Working Group information

Instrumentation
science instruments studies for NGST.
Integrated Science Instrument Module (ISIM)

recommended instruments and capabilities.

Observatory Designs
See potential designs, capabilities and download images

Key Technology Challenges

Lightweight Optics
Deployable Structures
Improved Detectors
Cryogenic Actuators & Mirror control
Reduced Cost Operations (e.g., Scientist's Expert Assistant)

NASA policy statement regarding privacy and web site access

Learn about lightweight mirrors on the NGST Web site.

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This page was last modified on Wednesday, 01-Mar-2000