JWST Secondary Mirror Deployment
JWST Secondary Mirror Deployment 3_24_2016
The sole secondary mirror that will fly aboard NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was deployed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, on March 24, 2016.
The Webb telescope uses many mirrors to direct incoming light into the telescope's instruments. The secondary mirror is called the secondary mirror because it is the second surface the light from the cosmos hits on its route into the telescope.
Credits
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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Producer
- Michael McClare (HTSI)
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Cinematographers
- Michael McClare (HTSI)
- Nasreen Alkhateeb (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
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Technical support
- Nasreen Alkhateeb (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
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Editors
- Nasreen Alkhateeb (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
- Michael P. Menzel (Genesis Engineering Solutions, Inc.)
Release date
This page was originally published on Thursday, April 14, 2016.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:48 PM EDT.