First Two Webb Telescope Flight Mirrors Delivered to NASA
Posted on Oct 30, 2012 08:59:43 AM | John Entwistle | 0 Comments
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first two of the 18 primary mirrors to fly aboard NASA’s James Webb Space
Telescope arrived at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
The mirrors are going through receiving and inspection and will then be stored
in the Goddard cleanroom until engineers are ready to assemble them onto the
telescope's backplane structure that will support them.
This information is a great extension to the NASA
Explorer Schools live video chat with Dr. John Mather, a Nobel Prize winning
Astrophysicist working with James Webb. Watch the archived video of this
chat on the NES Virtual Campus.
