JWST, LUVOIR and Mind-blowing Future Projects with Lee Feinberg, Optical Telescope Element Manager
What's the current state of James Webb? What were the main technical difficulties and what does the future look like? What comes after JWST and LUVOIR? Will it be possible to ever build a quantum telescope. Lee Feinberg is the Optical Telescope Element Manager for JWST.
Watch the video here or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/eXchT7mtEao
James Webb, LUVOIR and Mind-blowing Future Projects with Lee Feinberg (Vimeo)
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Hi Fraser. I finally got around to watching this yesterday, and I have to say it was well worth it! I was especially interested in the discussion about the complexities of acquiring targets for observation and getting the astronomers the time they need. My son, Rob, worked at STScI from 1999 until his untimely death in 2020. He initially worked on various projects, and then moved to the scheduling software for the Hubble and continued there and was the lead developer for the Astronomer's Proposal Tool when he died. I recall conversations about how complex scheduling the Hubble is, so your conversation with Lee Feinberg covered familiar ground! I learned today from one of Rob's co-workers that Dr. Dan Coe paid tribute to him in this paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.14123.pdf
Wow, that was a real treat, thanks for putting that together Fraser. Lee is a true visionary. Epic stuff.
Yup, you can see why he has the job.