Robot Arm with a James Webb Space Telescope Test Mirror Segment

Here our robot arm puts a golden James Webb Space Telescope engineering design unit (ie, flight spare) primary mirror segment onto a test piece of backplane (known as the BSTA or Backplane Stability Test Article). This test occurred in the giant cleanroom at NASA Goddard.

 

Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn

 

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