The James Webb Space Telescope

John C. Mather

doi:10.1364/FIO.2003.ThJJ3

Frontiers in Optics
OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2003),
paper ThJJ3
•https://doi.org/10.1364/FIO.2003.ThJJ3

The James Webb Space Telescope

John C. Mather

Frontiers in Optics 2003

Tucson, Arizona United States
5–8 October 2003
ISBN: 1-55752-759-8

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Abstract

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will extend the discoveries of the Hubble Space Telescope by deploying a large cooled infrared telescope at the Sun-Earth Lagrange point L2. It will have a 6 m aperture and three instruments covering the wavelength range from 0.6 to 28 µm.

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