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Northrop Grumman Demonstrates JWST Telescope Control System at Keck Observatory

The Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC – News) team developing the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has successfully tested software that will be used to bring the space observatory’s 18 mirror ...
Digital Journal

Inside the James Webb Space Telescope's control room

“White-knuckle” — That’s how Rusty Whitman describes the month ahead, after the launch of the historic James Webb Space Telescope. A team of engineers in Baltimore, Maryland -- on the east coast of ...
SpaceNews

New system of automatic control capable of governing satellite telescopes

A team of Control Engineering researchers at the Public University of Navarra has successfully finalised their work on QFT Multivariable Robust Control of Darwin-type Satellites with large flexible ...
The New York Times

An Army of Robot Telescopes in Texas Makes the Stars Feel Closer Than Ever

Starfront Observatories allows amateur astronomers to rent a spot for their telescopes and photograph the cosmos over a high-speed data connection. In a year and a half, Starfront Observatories in ...
Ars Technica

Control large telescopes, see deep space from your PC

I just came across this site which allows you to purchase credits to view and control two large telescopes controlled by the Europeans off the coast of Africa. <BR><BR>What an idea! Looks like it ...