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Webb Space Telescope’s ‘Backbone’ Completed

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REDONDO BEACH, Calif., June 19, 2013 — Manufacture of the “backbone” of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a backplane support frame (BSF) that is the largest optically stable cryostructure ever built, is completed and ready for integration, project contractors Northrop Grumman Corp. and ATK reported last week. The telescope is a next-generation space observatory and successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. The most powerful space telescope ever built, the Webb will observe the most distant objects in the universe, provide images of the first galaxies formed and see unexplored planets around distant stars....Read full article

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    Published: June 2013
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