The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will be the world’s largest infrared, space-based observatory. It features a more than 21-foot primary mirror and is expected to launch in 2018. A successor to the well-known Hubble telescope, JWST will be able to see back to the beginnings of the known universe, the earliest formation of galaxies, and the birth of planetary systems. To allow JWST to look back in time, the software development team at GSFC took an integrated computer-aided software engineering (CASE) approach to design the complex software. The team employed a modern suite of modeling and development tools based on the Unified Modeling Language (UML).
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Preparing to See into the Past
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