James Webb Space Telescope 'Wings' Successfully Deployed

James Webb Space Telescope 'Wings' Successfully Deployed
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 18, 2015 - Recently inside the clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, engineers successfully completed two deployments for the James Webb Space Telescope's "wings" or side portions of the backplane structure that fold up. The wings and telescope structure are essential because they make up the telescope's carbon fiber framework which will hold all 18 of the telescope ... more

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