JWST's Pathfinder Backplane Deployment Time Lapse

  • Released Friday, January 22, 2016

This time-lapse video by Northrop Grumman shows part of the pathfinder (test) backplane. Attached to this center section of the backplane are the secondary mirror booms. The telescope's secondary mirror will sit at the end of these booms. Because the telescope is folded for launch, the booms must deploy afterwards. This video shows one of the tests of the deployment of the booms.



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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Northrop Grumman

Alex Evers

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This page was originally published on Friday, January 22, 2016.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:48 PM EDT.


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