Entry Date: 27.12.2021 11:29
Update Date: 27.12.2021 11:31
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The Jamess Webb space telescope, which is stated to examine and scan all stages of the universe in detail, was launched into space. In the James Webb space telescope, which the world is talking about, the detail of the Turkish professor drew attention. The engines of the missile were produced by METU Mechanical Engineering Department lecturer Prof. Dr. It was developed in the ICARE-CNRS laboratory established by İskender Gökalp in France.
Establishing the laboratory where the first and second stage engines of the “Ariane 5” missile, the launcher of the world’s most advanced space telescope “James Webb” of the US Aerospace Agency (NASA), are improved, METU Mechanical Engineering Faculty Member Prof. Dr. İskender Gökalp said that it is eagerly awaited whether the theories in the field of cosmology will be confirmed with the new telescope.
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Returning to Turkey from France in 2019 with TÜBİTAK’s Leading Researchers Program, İskender Gökalp made statements regarding the launch of the James Webb telescope from French Guiana on the northeast coast of South America with the “Ariane 5” launcher.
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ESTABLISHED IN FRANCE
Expressing that a launch system is needed to send the telescope into space, Gökalp said, “The only team working on the optimization of the two different stages of the Ariane 5 launcher’s engines is the ICARE-CNRS laboratory that I established in Orleans, France.‘ he said.
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Stating that the “aerothermic” department of the laboratory in Paris was established in the mid-1950s, and the “combustion” department in Orleans at the end of the 1960s, Gökalp said that he also moved to the laboratory in Orleans in the early 1980s after his doctorate, and became the director of the laboratory here in 2003. He explained that he founded the ICARE-CNRS laboratory by merging the two departments in 2007.
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Gökalp reported that he has been working on the combustion technologies in these launchers for 30 years.
Pointing out that he was the director of this laboratory until 2017, Gökalp said, “World-renowned R&D laboratories are not an event that occurred in a few years, they have a history of 50-60 years.” said.
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