🔖 Lessons learned from systems engineering on the James Webb Space Telescope - available Open Access in the SPIE Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems #SPIE_JATISwww.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/Jou...#SPIEastro
We are winding down at #SPIEastro in Yokohama, Japan. It’s been such a fun and productive week! We hope everyone continues to enjoy today’s presentations and marks their calendar to reconnect in Copenhagen for the 2026 conference. 📆
“You can only move at the speed of trust, which has nothing to do with the Gantt chart.” -Christine Matsuda, community relations & transformation strategy for Maunakea Observatories. The last #SPIEastro Lunch & Learn brings together a panel to discuss astronomy on indigenous land. 🔭
The first XRISM GO proposal round received 311 proposals, with an oversubscription of 5:1 (Tashiro) #SPIEastro 🔭🚀
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Second #SPIEastro plenary speaker for the day (and last plenary of the conference!) is Prof Makoto Tashiro, PI of the XRISM mission. Great to see some exciting first science from the mission!
Makoto Tashiro, PI for XRISM and professor at Saitama University, reviews recent developments and science results since the launch of the mission in September 2023. 🛰️🚀 XRISM is the X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission. #SPIEastro
Dempsey: LOFAR had the biggest single archive in astronomy - 70 PB 😳 #SPIEastro