Join us for a night of tacos, drinks, and awe.

At this special event, we are hosting a local Northrup Grumman aerospace engineer, Robby Swoish, to share his experience working on the development of the James Webb Space Telescope. His presentation, "Cosmic Game Changer: Behind the Scenes with the James Webb Space Telescope", covers the enormous efforts that led to the successful development, launch, and ongoing maintenance of this revolutionary machinery.

And we are grateful to our partners at Capital Group / American Funds, who are sponsoring our cocktail hour prior to the presentation.

• Itinerary: 
  • Cocktail Hour & Tacos: 5:00pm - 6:00pm
  • Presentation & Discussion: 6:00pm - 7:30pm
  • Closing & Cleanup: 7:30pm - 8:00pm

More on Robby:

“Robby Swoish is currently the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Northrop Grumman Operation & Maintenance Program Manager. This involves managing the JWST factory team efforts including support to anomaly resolution, on-orbit trending, Spacecraft Flight Software (FSW) maintenance, Engineering Model Testbed (EMTB) execution and maintenance, and simulator maintenance.

Over the past eighteen years, he has held a variety of roles at Northrop Grumman including Ground Operations IPT Lead, Deputy Ground Operations Lead, Spacecraft Commissioning Phase Lead, Mission System Engineering Commissioning Lead for on-console commissioning operations, Program Export Technical Advisor, and Operations System Engineer. Robby helped design and shape the Webb on-orbit operations as well as prepare and lead the team through the successful commissioning campaign. 

He has a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering and a master’s degree in space systems engineering from the University of Michigan. For his work on Webb, Swoish received the Northrop Grumman Space Systems President’s Award for Program Excellence, The Engineers’ Council Distinguished Engineering Project of the Year Achievement Award, and the NASA Exceptional Public Achievement Medal.”

For more on the Webb Space Telescope, visit https://science.nasa.gov/mission/webb/