Lockheed-Martin Begins Work on Hardware Design for NASA’s WFIRST Telescope

Lockheed-Martin has recently announced that it has begun work on components for an instrument that, if selected by NASA, will become the primary scientific instrument for the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST). Known as the Wide-Field Optical-Mechanical Assembly (WOMA), this instrument will begin a search for hundreds of millions of hidden galaxies and study … [Read more…]