Webb Telescope Structure Placed on Roll-over Fixture 9-23-2015
Released on January 22, 2016
The Webb Telescope backplane structure is lifted and attached to the rollover fixture at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland on September 23, 2015. The telescope structure is the carbon fiber framework, which will hold all 18 of the telescope's mirrors, the Inegrated Science Instrument Modeule (ISIM) and the tower for the primary mirror.