ESA plans to ground-test new Hubble arrays for jitter

JITTER TEST: Engineers at the European Space Agency's facility in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, plan to test the new Hubble Space Telescope solar arrays for jitter before they are launched, something that has never been done on the ground before. The Large Space Simulator, a thermal vacuum chamber...

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