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| Deployment tests like these in March 2020 help safeguard mission success by physically demonstrating that NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is able to move and unfold as intended. Credits: NASA/Chris Gunn |
1 April 2020
Ken
Kremer – - For SpaceUpClose.com &
RocketSTEM
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – The
team building NASA’s mammoth James Webb
Space Telescope (JWST) recently accomplished a major milestone – namely fully deployed
its 21 foot (6.5 meter) primary mirror into the same configuration it will have
when it is carrying out astronomical observations in space.
Read the entire story at Space UpClose:
https://www.spaceupclose.com/2020/04/nasas-james-webb-space-telescope-primary-mirror-passes-deployment-test-covid-19-crisis-suspends-work-video/
Read the entire story at Space UpClose:
https://www.spaceupclose.com/2020/04/nasas-james-webb-space-telescope-primary-mirror-passes-deployment-test-covid-19-crisis-suspends-work-video/
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