JWST Testing With Integrated Instruments To Begin

Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn
GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER — Workers are preparing more than $2 billion worth of James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) elements for a rigorous integrated-testing schedule that will continue until shortly before launch in the fall of 2018. The gold-plated beryllium mirrors that make up the telescope’s 6...

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