The award-winning Wolchover was a staff writer for Space.com's sister publication Live Science from 2010 to 2012.
"It's a wonderful recognition for our whole team, and for the ethos of science journalism," she added of the prize-winningWolchover's tale elegantly traces the bedeviling engineering process that produced the James Webb Space Telescope, a $10 billion observatory thatand very much over budget. She notes that even after launch , Webb still had to face numerous issues during its commissioning.
"The sunshield is both an infrared telescope’s only hope and its Achilles heel. In order to unfurl to large enough proportions without weighing down a rocket, the sunshield must consist of thin fabric," she wrote.
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