Events for the College of Optics & Photonics

Thursday, April 07, 2022

  • The James Webb Telescope: Mission, Design, Development and Progress to Science Operations

    UCF Classroom Building II, Room 201

    RSVP to join here: https://ucf.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1LnDcoWJmmjkufY Speaker: Jonathan ArenbergChief Mission ArchitectScience and Robotic ExplorationNorthrop Grumman This talk introduces the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA’s next large astrophysics mission, launced Christmas Day, 2021. Webb’s science goals; detection of the universe’s first light, assembly of galaxies, birth of stars and observation of planets and exo-planets are introduced.We will explore how the design responds …

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