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JWST Partially Stowed

author: NASA/Novapix

reference: e-sou05-90150

Image Size 300 DPI: 47 * 57 cm

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was successfully folded and stowed into the same configuration it will have when loaded onto an Ariane 5 rocket for launch next year. Webb is NASA’s largest and most complex space science telescope ever built. Too big for any rocket available in its fully expanded form, the entire observatory was designed to fold in on itself to achieve a much smaller configuration. Once in space, the observatory will unfold and stretch itself out in a carefully practiced series of steps before beginning to make groundbreaking observations of the cosmos. June 2020.

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2020 - ARTIFICIAL SATELLITE - ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITE - ASTRONOMY - HUMAN - INFRARED - JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE - JWST - MAN - MIRROR - PERSON - SPACE - SPACE CENTER - TEST -