James Webb Space Telescope Team To Receive Collier Award

The $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope is the largest and most complex space observatory in history.

Wednesday, April 05, 2023 at 05:27 PM ET

Verified

For the last time on Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope’s sunshield was deployed and tensioned by testing teams at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, California, where final deployment tests were completed. [Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn]

Key Takeaways:

The James Webb Space Telescope Team is being awarded the prestigious 2022 Robert J. Collier Award for its groundbreaking achievements in astronautics.
Recognized as the largest and most complex space observatory in history, the telescope was a collaborative effort led by Northrop Grumman in partnership with ESA and CSA, and managed by NASA.
The telescope has already made unprecedented scientific discoveries, exploring early galaxies and providing detailed views of exoplanet atmospheres, significantly advancing our understanding of the universe.

See a mistake? Contact us.

The James Webb Space Telescope Team will receive the 2022 Robert J. Collier Award, the National Aeronautic Association (NAA) announced Wednesday.

For more than a century, the Collier Award has been awarded to recognize the previous year’s greatest achievement in aeronautics or astronautics in the U.S. Collier recipients include Orville Wright in 1913, Chuck Yeager in 1947, and the NASA/Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) Ingenuity Team in 2021.