News

28 Aug 2019 Telescope for NASA’s WFIRST Mission Advances to New Development Phase
06 Aug 2019 Jody Davis - Working at Goddard Inspires Davis to Inspire Others
26 Jun 2019 Main Instrument for NASA’s WFIRST Mission Completes Milestone Review
30 Nov 2018 NASA Awards Optical Telescope Assembly for WFIRST
15 Jun 2018 NASA Awards the Short Wave Infra-Red Sensor Chip Assembly for WFIRST
22 Dec 2017 NASA’s Next Major Telescope to See the Big Picture of the Universe
19 Oct 2017 NASA Receives Findings from WFIRST Independent Review Team
07 Sep 2017 NASA Awards New Cooperative Agreement to W. M. Keck Observatory
29 Aug 2017 NASA Team Passes Major Tech Milestone for Characterizing Exoplanets
22 Jun 2017 NASA Announces Independent Review Panel Members for WFIRST
27 Apr 2017 NASA Taking a Fresh Look at Next Generation Space Telescope Plans
19 Jan 2017 LM: Work Begins in Palo Alto on NASA's Dark Energy Hunter, WFIRST
15 Dec 2016 Are planets like those in 'Star Wars: Rogue One' really out there?
17 Mar 2016 Community announcement: NASA's New Great Observatory Takes Shape with IPAC's Support
18 Feb 2016 NASA approves WFIRST to move from Study phase into Formulation (Phase A)
18 Dec 2015 NASA releases selection of Science Investigation Teams for WFIRST. See summaries of the selected investigations here (PDF).
17 Jul 2015 ROSES-2015 Appendix D.11 NRA for WFIRST Science Investigation Teams and Adjutant Scientists
12 Mar 2015 WFIRST-AFTA Preparatory Science investigation teams have been selected. The abstracts are here.
10 Mar 2015 Science Definition Team 2015 Report
07 Jan 2015 AAS WFIRST Special Session
17 Nov 2014 WFIRS14 Conference, Pasadena
23 May 2013 WFIRST-AFTA SDT Final Report Revision 1
22 May 2013 WFIRST-2.4: What Every Astronomer Should Know
10 Aug 2012 WFIRST SDT Final Report
02 Feb 2012 SDT Charter updated.
13 Jul 2011 WFIRST SDT and Project Interim Report Presentation to the Astrophysics Sub-Committee
12 Jul 2011 WFIRST Interim Design Reference Mission Report released.
04 Nov 2010 Charter for the Science Definition Team for WFIRST released.
19 Oct 2010 Call for Letters of Application for Membership on the Science Definition Team for WFIRST released.