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NASA Webb Telescope Construction Leaps Forward with Delivery of Mirror Holding Backbone Flight Structure
View showing actual flight structure of mirror backplane unit for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) that holds 18 segment primary mirror array and secondary mirror mount at front, in stowed-for-launch configuration. JWST is being assembled here by technicians inside the world’s largest cleanroom at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com
NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, MD – The construction pace for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) took a major leap forward with delivery of the actual flight structure that serves as the observatory’s critical mirror holding backbone – to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland and observed by Universe Today.
“We are in good shape with the James Webb Space Telescope,” said Dr. John Mather, NASA’s Nobel Prize Winning scientist, in an exclusive interview with Universe Today at NASA Goddard during a visit to the flight structure – shown in my photos herein.
And the mammoth $8.6 Billion Webb telescope has mammoth (…)
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Post tags: Big Bang, esa, HST, Hubble 25th anniversary, Hubble Space Telescope, ISIM, James Webb Space Telescope, John Grunsfeld, John Mather, jwst, JWST backplane, NASA, NASA Goddard, NASA Johnson, Northrup Grumman, Orbital ATK
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Source: http://www.universetoday.com/122500/nasa-webb-telescope-construction-leaps-forward-with-delivery-of-mirror-holding-backbone-flight-structure/
