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Installing the last of 18 primary mirror segments on JWST


Date: 03 February 2016
Satellite: JWST
Location: Goddard Space Flight Centre
Copyright: NASA/C. Gunn

Inside a massive cleanroom at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland the James Webb Space Telescope team used a robotic arm to install the last of the telescope's 18 mirrors onto the telescope structure.

Last Update: 1 September 2019
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