Webb Mirrors Tested At Upgraded Chandra Facility
Credit: NASA Marshall Space Flight Center/David Higginbotham and Emmet Given
Beryllium mirror segments designed to keep the James Webb Space Telescope in focus at the super-cold L2 Lagrangian point have completed their first round of tests in a vacuum facility originally built to test mirrors for the Chandra X-ray telescope. Engineers at the X-Ray and Cryogenic Facility...
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