Northrop CEO: JWST’s Inventions Will Help Shape Future Space Programs

Brian Everstine July 13, 2022
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The JWST sunshield during its final deployment test at the Northrop Grumman facility in Redondo Beach, California, in December 2020.
Credit: Chris Gunn/NASA
LONDON—The technology behind NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope—especially the tennis court-sized sun shield, advanced cooling systems and powerful optics—can translate into the development of other future Northrop Grumman space systems, the company’s CEO says. On July 12 the public got its first...
Brian Everstine

Brian Everstine is the Pentagon Editor for Aviation Week, based in Washington, D.C. Before joining Aviation Week in August 2021, he covered the Pentagon for Air Force Magazine. Brian began covering defense aviation in 2011 as a reporter for Military Times.

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