JWST Secondary Mirror Installation
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Secondary Mirror Installed
The sole secondary mirror that will fly aboard NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was installed onto the telescope at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, on March 3, 2016.
The Webb telescope uses many mirrors to direct incoming light into the telescope's instruments. The secondary mirror is called the secondary mirror because it is the second surface the light from the cosmos hits on its route into the telescope.
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Credits
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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Producer
- Michael McClare (HTSI)
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Cinematographer
- Michael McClare (HTSI)
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Editors
- Nasreen Alkhateeb (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
- Michael P. Menzel (Genesis Engineering Solutions, Inc.)
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Technical support
- Nasreen Alkhateeb (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
Release date
This page was originally published on Thursday, April 14, 2016.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:48 PM EDT.