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The James Webb Space Telescope And Its Exoplanet Mission (Part 1)

    The last time Many Worlds wrote about the James Webb Space Telescope, it was in the process of going through a high-stakes, super-complicated unfurling.  About 50 autonomous deployments needed to occur after launch to set up the huge system,  with 344 potential single point failures to overcome--individual steps that had to work for …

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The Just-Approved European ARIEL Mission Will Be First Dedicated to Probing Exoplanet Atmospheres

  This column was written by my colleague Elizabeth Tasker, now at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Institute of Space and Astronautical Sciences (ISAS).  Trained as an astrophysicist, she researches planet and galaxy formation and also writes on space science topics.  Her book, "The Planet Factory," came out last year.   The European Space …

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