The James Webb Space Telescope: Some Key Moments in its History

Robert W. Smith

doi:10.1117/12.2646870

29 August 2022 The James Webb Space Telescope: Some Key Moments in its History

Robert W. Smith

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Proceedings Volume 12180, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave; 1218002 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2646870
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2022, Montréal, Québec, Canada

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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)—a joint enterprise of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency—is the most complex and in some ways the most powerful telescope ever built. It’s history--which includes a near-death experience at the hands of a U.S. congressional committee in 2011 when there was an effort to kill the project--raises a range of important issues, as well as lessons for the future of space astronomy. In this talk, Dr. Robert W. Smith will discuss several key moments in JWST’s history.

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Robert W. Smith "The James Webb Space Telescope: Some Key Moments in its History", Proc. SPIE 12180, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, 1218002 (29 August 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2646870

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