James Webb Space Telescope gets satellite sidekick to aid search for habitable planets

A deep-space telescope's search for potentially habitable exoplanets will get a stellar boost from a small satellite. The James Webb Space Telescope's (JWST or Webb) far-reaching exoplanet search will receive some help from a much smaller satellite, which is optimized to look at star activity. The $8.5 million cubesat, selected by NASA, is called Monitoring Activity from Nearby Stars with UV Imaging and Spectroscopy, or MANTIS. More

(Source: Space.com - Jun 17)