COSMOS-Webb is slated to be the largest program in JWST’s first year of operation
A. Sue Weisler RIT Assistant Professor Jeyhan Kartaltepe is the principal investigator of COSMOS-Webb, the largest General Observer program selected for James Webb Space Telescope’s first year.
When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) the long-awaited successor to the Hubble Space Telescope becomes operational in 2022, one of its first orders of business will be mapping the earliest structures of the universe. A team of nearly 50 researchers led by scientists at Rochester Institute of Technology and University of Texas at Austin will attempt to do so through the COSMOS-Webb program, the largest General Observer program selected for JWST’s first year.
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I haven t heard anything about Trump s potential pick for a NASA administrator since November. On the one hand, the JWST isn t earth science, so it isn t likely to be in republican gun sights for immediate killing. On the other, I can t imagine
any NASA program is going to be safe this year, or that NASA s overall budget will increase. :( Hopefully sane heads will prevail and be able to convince congress that underfunding the project now will just likely lead to greater cost and schedule overruns later, so it (underfunding) is a bad deal.
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