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Lockheed Martin Wins Contract for NASA's Space Telescope

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SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 13 -- A team headed by Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space has been awarded a phase-one design contract by NASA for the Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST). The Lockheed Martin group, which includes Raytheon, Honeywell and Jackson and Tull, will provide NASA with management and technical approaches to NGST. The team's design for NGST will include a lightweight 8-meter-class deployable mirror. The NGST will be a space observatory optimized for IR imaging and spectroscopy of astronomical targets. It will be launched to a location opposite the Sun, about a million miles...Read full article

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