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James Webb Space Telescope and the Traveling Salesman Problem

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Physics for the Birds

How do you decide which stars the world's most expensive telescope looks at? This video introduces the Traveling Salesman Problem and some basic algorithms to solve it, attitude control and momentum management on the James Webb Space Telescope, and some key concepts of all optimization problems.

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0:00 Intro
1:36 The Traveling Salesman Problem
6:08 Webb Momentum Management
9:41 Using the Universe as a Computer

Thank you to Caleb Birtwistle for captioning!

Circuit Board Drilling: https://www.zib.de/groetschel/pubnew/...
Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21965...
JWST Solar Panels: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13208
JWST Heat Shield: https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/...
JWST Momentum Overview: https://jwstdocs.stsci.edu/jwstobse...
JWST Observation Planning:
https://www.stsci.edu/largefiles/iwps...
https://www.aaai.org/Papers/ICAPS/200...
https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/documen...
http://robotics.estec.esa.int/iSAIRA...

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