JWST Model at Goodwood 2023: A Revolutionary Design for Space Exploration
It was a real honour to work on this project for Goodwood’s Festival of Speed, 2023 world famous “Future Lab” – the home of immersive technology experiences. The brief was simple, produce a realistic hanging rendition of the incredible James Webb Telescope – as close as possible in detail as the real thing.
If you have studied this incredible telescope you will know that it has one of the most unique and complicated mechanisms ever put into space (yet along on Earth) and trying to build something that captures this was a real test to our design and fabrication skills.
The project took LUMA almost 3 months to complete, created from 12 sections of large 300mm FDM 3Dprinted pieces and an internal metal frame. The model weighs in at 11.5kg, at a 1:18 scale with a total length of 1.2m, it has definitely been the most challenging 3D model LUMA has provided to date!
Check out the model, perhaps even meet Tim Peake at the Goodwood Festival of Speed – this Thursday 13th – Sunday 16th July 2023.
About JWST
The James Webb Space Telescope is a large, infrared-optimized space telescope that was launched on December 22, 2021. It is a collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). The JWST is designed to be the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope and will be used to study every phase in the history of our Universe, ranging from the first luminous glows after the Big Bang to the formation of galaxies, stars, and planetary systems that could support life as we know it.
The JWST has a large mirror that is 6.5 meters in diameter and is made up of 18 hexagonal segments. It has four main scientific instruments: the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam), the Near Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec), the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), and the Fine Guidance Sensor/Near InfraRed Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (FGS/NIRISS).
The JWST will be able to observe some of the earliest galaxies in the Universe and will be able to see through dust clouds that have obscured our view of these galaxies in the past. It will also be able to study the atmospheres of exoplanets and look for signs of life.
Here are some interesting facts about the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST):
- The JWST is a collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA)
- The JWST is designed to be the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope and will be used to study every phase in the history of our Universe
- The JWST has a large mirror that is 6.5 meters in diameter and is made up of 18 hexagonal segments
- The JWST has four main scientific instruments: the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam), the Near Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec), the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), and the Fine Guidance Sensor/Near InfraRed Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (FGS/NIRISS)
- The JWST will be able to observe some of the earliest galaxies in the Universe and will be able to see through dust clouds that have obscured our view of these galaxies in the past
- The JWST will also be able to study the atmospheres of exoplanets and look for signs of life
- The JWST was launched on December 22, 2021
- The cost of building and launching the JWST was approximately $10 billion
- The JWST will orbit around the second Lagrange point (L2), nearly 1 million miles (1.5 million kilometers) from Earth
- The sunshield on the JWST is 69.5 ft by 46.5 ft (22 meters x 12 meters)
Keyshot render of the Solidworks 3D CAD file to visualise hanging