Which is the largest telescope deployed in space? Its name is James Webb Space Telescope. This telescope of NASA has started working from last year i.e. 2022, but the American space agency has started thinking about the future. She is preparing for the new and bigger space telescope to be launched in the future. Although it may take about 2 decades i.e. 20 years to launch it. Let us know what is the preparation of NASA.
You might be thinking that the James Webb telescope has just started working and will provide services for many years. Then why does NASA need to work on a new telescope? Actually, NASA and all the space agencies keep preparing their projects according to the future.
of media reports AccordingThe James Webb telescope was also planned many years ago and then NASA’s Hubble Telescope was doing its work well in space. Hubble is still in service and NASA has started operating the James Webb Telescope. Similarly, in future also James Webb will be doing his work and NASA’s new telescope will be launched.
According to reports, the new telescope will be built on the basis of what the US space agency has learned from its previous missions. At the 241st meeting of the American Astronomical Society, NASA officials outlined their vision for developing the telescope. The agency calls it the Habitable Worlds Observatory. It will be a 6.5 meter space telescope.
NASA also calls this program the Great Observatory Technology Maturation Program ie GOMAP. Mark Klampin, director of NASA’s Astrophysics Division, said at the meeting that the first of three phases of GOMAP is nearly complete. That is, NASA has prepared plans and policies related to the new Space Observatory. In the second phase, the concept of this observatory will be completed.
These are the expectations from the new telescope
According to reports, before preparing the new telescope, scientists are looking at the priority of future missions. This includes potentially habitable planets ie exoplanets, where life like Earth can exist. Apart from this, discoveries related to General Astrophysics are included.
Spacenews.com has written in its report that soon the team of scientists will see the design of the telescope. Will tell NASA which design can be better.
According to the information, the third phase of the project may start from the year 2028. Work on Phase-A of the Habitable World Observatory may begin in the year 2029. There is a plan to launch the observatory in the year 2040. Although many scientists want NASA to speed up its project.
