NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has Completed Testing

  • Released Thursday, August 26, 2021

Engineering teams have completed the James Webb Space Telescope's long-spanning comprehensive testing regimen at Northrop Grumman's facilities. Webb's many tests and checkpoints were designed to ensure that the world's most complex space science observatory will operate as designed once in space. Now that observatory testing has concluded, shipment operations have begun. This includes all the necessary steps to prepare Webb for a safe journey through the Panama Canal to its launch location in Kourou, French Guiana, on the northeastern coast of South America.


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This page was originally published on Thursday, August 26, 2021.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:43 PM EDT.


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