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Dr. Jonathan Arenberg is a Northrop Grumman Fellow and Chief Mission Architect for Science and Robotic Exploration. His role includes developing, planning, and conducting strategic analyses for space science missions across all science disciplines. He directed Northrop's studies of potential successor missions to the Webb as part of the recent astrophysics decadal review and recent Astrophysics Probe Explorer proposals. Dr. Arenberg has experience working on astronomical programs such as the Chandra X-ray Observatory, development of the Starshade and NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. He held several positions on Webb, structural technology test lead, system design leader, systems engineering manager and finally chief engineer. In addition to his work on astronomical systems, he has also contributed to major high-energy and tactical laser systems, laser component engineering, metrology, optical inspection, and technology development projects and is a member of national and international standards committees related to lasers and electro-optics. Dr. Arenberg holds a Bachelor of Science degree in physics, a Master of Science and PhD in engineering, all from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a Fellow of the International Optics and Photonics Society, SPIE, and an Associate Fellow of AIAA, author of over 240 conference presentations, papers and book chapters and co-author of a recent book on systems engineering for astronomy from SPIE press. He holds 15 European and U.S. patents in a wide variety of areas of technology.
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