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Back Vibration testing on the James Webb Space Telescope

Vibration testing on the James Webb Space Telescope


Date: 23 January 2017
Satellite: JWST
Location: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
Copyright: NASA/Chris Gunn

This image shows the James Webb Space Telescope (inside a clean tent) being lifted by crane onto one of two shaker tables being used for vibration testing.

(Originally published here.)

Last Update: 1 September 2019
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