> On Dec 21, 2021, at 8:06 AM, Larry Finch <finc...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 8:40 AM Laura R <lauraroz...@gmail.com > <mailto:lauraroz...@gmail.com>> wrote: > NASA is preparing to launch the Webb telescope out to space. It will let us > know how all started: > https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/20/science/webb-telescope-astronomy.html?smid=em-share > > <https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/20/science/webb-telescope-astronomy.html?smid=em-share> > > There is a “folding” part. This sounds like there is a lot of origami here. > Can anyone elaborate more? > > Dr. Lang was involved in the design of the James Webb telescope, and has > written about it and created videos about it, as well as a TED talk. Here is > just one of the many articles that you can find with a web search: > https://www.wired.com/2008/01/the-origami-tel/ > <https://www.wired.com/2008/01/the-origami-tel/>
Ah, no, he wasn’t involved in JWST (though he does talk about it in his TED talk as an example of folding in space, ending with “they didn’t need an origami artist for a telescope with only two folds in it”). The two space-based telescopic projects I was involved in were the Eyeglass (a project from LLNL, not NASA), which is either halted or classified (or both); and NASA StarShade, which is definitely continuing in development, and there’s some cool videos on the internet of its deployment testing. (Well, there’s a bit more, but I can’t talk publicly about that yet. 😉) Robert
