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A view from Chamber A


Date: 20 May 2017
Satellite: JWST
Location: NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas
Copyright: NASA/Chris Gunn

Taken from inside NASA's Johnson Space Center​'s Chamber A, the James Webb Space Telescope is shown being lifted onto its test stand. It will eventually be slid into the chamber for cryogenic testing.

Read more about Chamber A and the tests on JWST here.

(Originally published here.)

Last Update: 1 September 2019
7-Feb-2026 14:31 UT

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