Figure 6-29: The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) The successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, JWST will have an objective mirror 6.5 m (21 ft) in diameter. Like many Earthbound telescopes, JWST will be of Cassegrain design (see Figure 6-11b and Figure 6-14b). Rather than using liquid helium to keep the telescope and instruments at the low temperatures needed to observe at infrared wavelengths, JWST will keep cool using a multilayer sunshield the size of two tennis courts.
(ESA, C. Carreau)