It's unfortunate that the article speaks so much of NASA engineers and managers, but fails to mention the actual engineers that designed, built, and tested it: TRW (now Northrup Grumman) and Ball Aerospace.
> The concepts used to create the JWST are built on the same concepts used on the first satellites and space probes in the 1950s.
AKA, the field of Systems Engineering [0]. Further reading if you really want to take a deep dive [1].
> The concepts used to create the JWST are built on the same concepts used on the first satellites and space probes in the 1950s.
AKA, the field of Systems Engineering [0]. Further reading if you really want to take a deep dive [1].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_engineering
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Mission-Analysis-Design-Technology-Li...