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No mention of ESA again, looks like it is solely NASA project, which it is not. Shame.
by asteroidbelt 5y ago
No mention of ESA again, looks like it is solely NASA project, which it is not.
Shame.
- kitd 5y agoI was under the impression that ESA's role was to get it into orbit, and is thus largely done. Is that wrong?
- asteroidbelt 5y agoFrom Wikipedia: > NIRSpec (Near InfraRed Spectrograph) will also perform spectroscopy over the same wavelength range. It was built by the European Space Agency at ESTEC in Noordwijk, Netherlands. and more.
- spixy 5y agoTo be fair ESA contributed only with ~10% of total budget, and I guess much of that was the rocket.
- asteroidbelt 5y agoI don’t see how that’s fair. If that’s insignificant, why invite them? If that’s significant, why not mention them?
- tnle 5y agoFrom the article, near the very top: "A joint effort with the European Space Agency (ESA) and Canadian Space Agency, the Webb mission will explore every phase of cosmic history – from within our solar system to the most distant observable galaxies in the early universe."
- asteroidbelt 5y agoThey changed the link. It pointed to a tweet initially.