JWST, LUVOIR and Mind-blowing Future Projects with Lee Feinberg, Optical Telescope Element Manager

Great episode! Feinberg's expertise and technical info about the JWST is absolutely fascinating! This channel is much more than the best science reporting. It's an oasis of calm and intelligence. Fraser and his guests represent the best part of YouTube- the part that values our collective desire to know more about our world, our universe and our better place in it.

Great interview! This gave me a better understanding of what JWST is about than anything I had heard before. Every day they must must have to shake themselves again to realize that they really did it.

This guy makes me glad to pay my taxes. Love the transparency and his obvious real interest in what he does. This is the kind of thinking that will get us somewhere. Thank you.

I love these engineering oriented interviews Fraser. While the science the telescope is doing is amazing, I would argue (at least from an engineer's viewpoint) that how the telescope came together and operates is much cooler. Pun intended. It's like you mentioned in the video, we are coming up against the limits of physics more than the limits of engineering. I think that really says it all as to what an accomplishment this telescope really is. Thank you and Lee for the interview!

"the guy that bought the bird company" - that's my new favorite nickname for him

The images and the data that have already come from the JWST is mind-blowing. I’m looking forward to see what other discoveries they find over the next few years … the scientists will be kept busy. Great interview Fraser!

This got increasingly nerdy and fascinating as it progressed. Great conversation

Question: Can you talk about the challenges of capturing light from exoplanets and really dim stars? Like, I understand that sometimes we're talking about capturing a handful of photons per hour, which makes the function and design of these machines absolutely mind-blowing! Can you also talk about the workflow of how the data is stored onboard, how it's processed (is it compressed?) and the schedule and planning that goes to send the information back to Earth (the software — what options are there?, the infrastructure, how it's stored back on Earth before processing, etc). Something you hardly hear about! Thanks Fraser!

This is such a great interview! Lee’s enthusiasm really shines through his stories of all the engineering challenges of creating JWST, and maximizing the benefit now that it is operational. Awesome stuff Fraser!

The Keck observatory seems to be doing visible light interferometry. That is, between two fairly close, stable, telescopes. More on that would be interesting.

Really, I would take the time to hit the like button hundreds of times for this interview, if I had the option.

The amount of technology that will emerge from this quest would be mind-blowing.

you listen to this gentleman from JWTS project, and realize just how much you dont understand. And I have spent 35 years in engineering and physics. been studying space for 40 years. I listen to my son who has a bachelors in aerospace engineering, summa cum laude. at 21y.o. He tries to explain some things and I know hes simplifying for me but, dang man. I get that feeling with him and I know hes dumbing it down for us.

Fantastic interview/conversation that it was my pleasure to tune into.... Thank you, Fraser and Lee!

What a fascinating look into the incredibly complex decisions in preparing such a wonderful scientific machine. I enjoyed this conversation immensely. Thank you.

Great interview. Just found this channel, already one of my favorites.

Great subject and even better interview! Thank you!

I love this guy. So passionate, and he achieved such a high level of success. How extremly proud he culd be. I always felt James Webb is pretty close to the limit of the present level of technology, with all these new stuffs, and he nailed all of them. And he is workin on a brand new thing. Extreme. We might need to name the next telescope to Lee Feinberg :D

this guy is really passionate about what amounts to his life's work. This whole interview was really good. And the problem solving that is ongoing. Just riveting visions of the future.

I like these introductions to the interviews, to know what I'm getting myself into lol