Testing the Webb Telescope
April 30th, 2012
10:20 AM ET

Testing the Webb Telescope

"Several critical items related to NASA's next-generation James Webb Space Telescope currently are being tested in the thermal vacuum test chamber at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.

This image shows the Optical Telescope Element Simulator, or OSIM, wrapped in a silver blanket on a platform, being lowered into the Space Environment Simulator vacuum chamber via crane to be tested to withstand the cold temperatures of space."

Source: NASA

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    April 30, 2012 at 11:04 am |
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