Event: JWST Technology Town Hall
1/9/2008 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
The James Webb Space Telescope will be one of the premier astronomical facilities in the next decade. The JWST Project passed its Technology Non-advocate Review held in January 2006. Just months after the St. Louis AAS meeting in 2007, the Project will hold its Preliminary Design Review and the remaining portions of the Non-Advocate Review. These are major milestones for the program on the way to a June 2013 launch. In this Town Hall, we will briefly discuss the status of the program and review several of the major technologies that have been successfully tested in flight-like conditions. In particular, we will discuss the performance of the 2K x 2K HgCdTe arrays for use in the near-infrared and the 1K x 1K Si:As arrays developed for the mid-infrared. We will also discusse the performance of the cryo-cooler. These technologies are important for other future ground-based and space-based astronomical facilities as well as Webb.
Organizer: Peter Stockman, STScI