The teams behind two potential new space telescopes have embarked on their final design studies as they go head-to-head to see which will be the first of NASA’s new "Probe" class of mission.
PRIMA, the Probe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics, will study the universe at the longest of infrared wavelengths, bridging the gap between what the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) can see in the near- and mid-infrared, and what radio telescopes observe. On Nov. 8, the international PRIMA team — led by Jason Glenn of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and including researchers from the US and Europe — convened at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California for a workshop to kick-off the design study.
