Mark your calendar! Join us for the expert webinar by John Durning – Deputy Program manager of the James Webb telescope as he talks about the technology behind the James Webb Telescope and how interdisciplinary teams from across the country worked together to build this engineering marvel!
Building of the James Webb Telescope- John Durning
- The James Webb Space Telescope (sometimes called JWST or Webb) is an orbiting infrared observatory that will complement and extend the discoveries of the Hubble Space Telescope, with longer wavelength coverage and greatly improved sensitivity.
- These longer wavelengths enable Webb to look much closer to the beginning of time and to hunt for the unobserved formation of the first galaxies, as well as to look inside dust clouds where stars and planetary systems are forming today.
- This program achieved significant advances in multiple technological areas including Lightweight optics, Deployable sunshield, Folding segmented mirror, Improved Detectors, Cryogenic actuators and micro shutters