Board Tours JWST, AEHF Production at Northrop Grumman

The chapter's board members donned clean room apparel for the first time in many years during their December meeting that was hosted by Northrop Grumman at its storied Space Park facilities in Redondo Beach, California. Company representatives gave directors first-hand tours of production high bays for NASA's next-generation space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the fourth anti-jam communications payload for the U.S. Air Force's Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite. Planned for launch in 2018, the JWST will be the most powerful space telescope ever built. Operating in the near-infrared, it will help scientists understand how galaxies were formed and detect remnants of light from the Big Bang. The AEHF protected Military Satellite Communications Systems (MILSATCOM) payloads are a unique capability Northrop Grumman has developed for assured communications.

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