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Lee Feinberg

Lee Feinberg

May 12, 2026

54:12
Can you maybe tell us a bit about that?
54:15
You know, one of the very first trades I did when I joined Webb was, like, re-looking at should we go with a monolithic large oval shaped mirror, something that could fit in the, the rocket, you know, that was six meter by four meter or something.
54:30
And there was a lot of desire to fly segmented mirrors at that time for a lot of different reasons.
54:36
I think, and I've talked to Bernie about it, Bernie was the project manager at the time and came from TRW, which had been pioneering this for a while.
54:44
I, I think we all knew that, likeYou know, if you look at ground telescopes, you know, they went from 2.4 meter to six to eight to 10.
54:52
Mm.
54:52
10 was segmented.

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86:53
Mm.

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