James Webb Space Telescope

Wayne Ung of Northrop Grumman will tell us about the recently completed James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).  It is still here in Redondo  Beach waiting for a ride in 2021 from French Guiana that will take it 940,000 miles  into space.  It will orbit the sun, not the earth.  The telescope has a huge increase in capabilities over the Hubble Space Telescope. The project is an international collaboration among NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and costs nearly $10 billion.  Our club heard an early briefing on the JWST in April 2016.  Since then the many challenges have been resolved with ground-breaking technological advances.