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astro-ph.IM2025
Genesis of the James Webb Space Telescope Architecture: The Designers' Story
Pierre Y. Bely, Garth D. Illingworth, Jonathan W. Arenberg +15
The James Webb Space Telescope, launched in 2021, is an infrared observatory of novel design: deployable, with active optics, fully open to space for radiative cooling and orbiting…
astro-ph.IM2023
The James Webb Space Telescope Mission
Jonathan P. Gardner, John C. Mather, Randy Abbott +1004
Twenty-six years ago a small committee report, building on earlier studies, expounded a compelling and poetic vision for the future of astronomy, calling for an infrared-optimized…