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Engineering students from California Polytechnic Institute brought their JWST model to NASA GSFC

Engineering students from California Polytechnic Institute brought their Webb Telescope deployment model to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. The students demonstrated this detailed, robotic version of Webb for the NASA team building the real thing. It’s a one – sixth scale model, and it performs the deployments the Webb Telescope will carry out before it begins science gathering.

Credits

Nasreen Alkhateeb (AIMM): Video Editor
Michael McClare (HTSI): Narration
Michael McClare (HTSI): Narrator
Michael McClare (HTSI): Producer
Michael McClare (HTSI): Videographer
Laura Betz (Telophase): Writer
Michael McClare (HTSI): Writer
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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center