"One of the rules for building spacecraft is to have as few moving parts as possible," Andy Bunker, Oxford University astrophysicist, grins. "And that's why we have built something that has a quarter ...

EADS Astrium GmbH. will build the Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) for the planned James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Canadian Space ...