An engineer at Nasa’s James Webb space telescope mission operations centre at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, monitors progress as the observatory’s second primary mirror wing rotates into position on January 8. Photo: Nasa/AFP
An engineer at Nasa’s James Webb space telescope mission operations centre at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, monitors progress as the observatory’s second primary mirror wing rotates into position on January 8. Photo: Nasa/AFP
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How Nasa’s James Webb and China’s Xuntian space telescopes could cooperate in future

  • The images from the James Webb telescope have captivated people around the world and energised the scientific community
  • Meanwhile, China’s space programme is making rapid progress, and its Xuntian telescope, with its massive field of vision, could find synergies with the US facility, and so help foster broader mutual understanding

Quentin Parker
Quentin Parker

Updated: 9:15am, 27 Jul, 2022

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An engineer at Nasa’s James Webb space telescope mission operations centre at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, monitors progress as the observatory’s second primary mirror wing rotates into position on January 8. Photo: Nasa/AFP
An engineer at Nasa’s James Webb space telescope mission operations centre at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, monitors progress as the observatory’s second primary mirror wing rotates into position on January 8. Photo: Nasa/AFP
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