IBM to develop software for James Webb Space Telescope

IBM to develop software for James Webb Space Telescope

US based tech giant IBM has said that the US space agency NASA would be using their software to operate the James Webb Space Telescope.

This next generation telescope would be taking over from the Hubble Space Telescope.

NASA would be using this new space telescope to look much closer to the beginning of time and hunt for the unobserved formation of the first galaxies.

The space agency aims to launch this telescope to the space by 2013. The Hubble Telescope originally used software technology built by multiple organizations using proprietary software for systems development. This made it complicated for NASA to maintain, change and fix the components and instruments on the telescope.

NASA has now said that each agency develops their systems using open standards and they would be using software technologies supplied by IBM.