Benjamin Dale Sunnquist

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Michael J. Gough

Providence Portland Medical Center

S. J. Lilly

ETH Zurich

A. P. Marston

European Space Astronomy Centre

Jeffrey R. Kirk

Goddard Space Flight Center

Gary J. Young

Northeastern University

Irene Shivaei

Centro de Astrobiología

J. Dupuis

Canadian Space Agency

Julien Rameau

Université de Montréal

George N. Chapman

Space Telescope Science Institute

Ray T. Coyle

Northrop Grumman (United States)

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The James Webb Space Telescope Mission

arXiv (Cornell University) (2023)

Jonathan P. Gardner John C. Mather R. Abbott James S. Abell Mark Abernathy

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 space telescope with an aperture of at least $4m$. With the support of their governments in the US, Europe, and Canada, 20,000 people realized that vision as the $6.5m$ James Webb Space Telescope. A generation of astronomers will celebrate their accomplishments for the life of the mission, potentially as long as 20 years, and beyond. This report and the scientific discoveries that follow are extended thank-you notes to the 20,000 team members. The telescope is working perfectly, with much better image quality than expected. In this and accompanying papers, we give a brief history, describe the observatory, outline its objectives and current observing program, and discuss the inventions and people who made it possible. We cite detailed reports on the design and the measured performance on orbit.

Spitzer Space Telescope

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10.48550/arxiv.2304.04869

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