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Inside the Universe Machine: The Webb Space Telescope’s Trailblazing Optics

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Build something that will absolutely, positively work.” This was the mandate from NASA for designing and building the James Webb Space Telescope—at 6.5 micrometers, whereas Webb is built to observe infrared light that stretches to 28 ?m meter-diameter light-collecting area. m in wavelength. NASA and the U.S.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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For example, he noted, “the standard way of building oscillators is to build one and then multiplex it until you have as many as you need. Yannes, for example, had made economy his credo when he was an impecunious high-school student looking for parts to build a sound synthesizer. It’s a personal challenge. Happy New Year 1982!

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