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This talk will give an inside account on the development of the
Hubble Space Telescope's successor: the James Webb Space Telescope
(JWST). The talk will explain why JWST is being developed, overview
it's design, and address how the development is progressing. The
talk will focus on the unique optical challenges of the telescope
including the lightweight beryllium mirrors, the unique architecture
for aligning the segmented telescope, and the large deployable and
stable structures that will hold the mirrors. The talk will contrast
the JWST technology to HST and show how JWST is not only the
scientific successor to HST, but also the technological successor.
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