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Webb Space Telescope Funded, for Now

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By Melinda Rose, Senior Editor

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20, 2011 — Two months after a House committee recommended defunding the project altogether, the James Webb Space Telescope was saved by a Senate subcommittee, which is allocating $530 million to the international project in 2012. The 2012 appropriations bill now awaits votes of the both the full House and Senate. The James Webb Space Telescope is a space-based observatory obtimized for infrared wavelengths, which is expected to be the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. With its much larger primary mirror and position in deep space, the JWST is designed to look further back in time and find...Read full article

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    Published: September 2011
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    A telescope that transmits, enlarges and converts infrared images.
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