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NE Section Event: Building of the James Webb Telescope 4/14 7-8 PM EST

  • 1.  NE Section Event: Building of the James Webb Telescope 4/14 7-8 PM EST

    Posted 14 Mar, 2022 13:01
    The AIAA New England Section is organizing an expert webinar session. Come and listen to the expert presentation about the technology behind the James Webb telescope and how interdisciplinary teams from across the country worked together to build this engineering marvel.

    Date & Time: April 14th , 2021, 7:00-8:00 pm EST
    Webinar Link: https://aiaa.zoom.us/j/93852504585

    • 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.

    John Durning is the Deputy Project Manager for the James Webb Space Telescope Project, at Goddard Space Flight Center, in Greenbelt, Md. He moved into that position in 2010, after serving as Deputy Project Manager/Technical for the Webb telescope project since 2006.

    As Deputy Project Manager, Durning plays a key leadership role in all aspects of the development of the flight hardware and software items for the Webb telescope.

    Durning has extensive experience in leading large, complex multi-national space hardware development programs. Durning's experience encompasses all aspects of space flight hardware development; from instrument to spacecraft to observatory development from early design phase, intense hardware development, full blown I&T activities and the launch campaign. Before coming onboard the Webb telescope project, Durning worked as the Project Formulation Manager for NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement Mission (GPM) from 2001 to 2006.

    He received a Master's degree in Astrodynamics from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. in 1992 and a B.S. degree in Aerospace Engineering from State University of New York, Buffalo, N.Y. in 1985.

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