Bente Eegholm is an optical engineer working to ensure missions like the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope have stellar vision. When it launches by May 2027,
the Roman mission will shed light on many astrophysics topics, like dark energy , which are currently shrouded in mystery. Bente’s past work has included Earth-observing missions and the James Webb Space Telescope.Bente Eegholm stands by the NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope ’s primary mirror at L3Harris in Rochester, New York, in 2022, before telescope integration. .
Bente stands in front of the James Webb Space Telescope’s primary mirror in the clean room overlook at Goddard.After becoming a U.S. citizen, I obtained a civil servant position in 2012. I was appointed the ATLAS telescope product development lead for the ICESat-2 mission, an Earth-observing mission to measure sea ice thickness from space.
I feel very fortunate to have experience from both astronomy and Earth-observing missions! It definitely widens your technical experience. Often, the telescopes and science instruments for astronomy missions typically take longer to develop and implement than the ones for Earth-observing missions.
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