JPL, Ball Use Keck to Test James Webb Adaptive Optics
Engineers working on NASA's planned James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have used the actively controlled hexagonal mirror segments at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii as analogs to test software designed to drive the adaptive optics on their deep-space instrument. Using the JWST software to drive the...
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