The Webb Telescope is Folded For Final Testing

  • Released Thursday, July 16th, 2020
  • Updated Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 at 1:44PM
  • ID: 13665

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is folded and ready for its final suite of testing.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is folded and ready for its final suite of testing.

The James Webb Space Telescope will be the world’s premier space science observatory and will solve mysteries in our solar system, look beyond to distant worlds around other stars, and probe the mysterious structures and origins of our universe and our place in it. Webb is an international program led by NASA with its partners, ESA (European Space Agency) and the Canadian Space Agency.

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