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The 18th and final primary mirror segment is installed on what will be the biggest and most powerful space telescope...
A technician guides SOFIA's primary mirror assembly into the aircraft's telescope cavity completing the mirror...
SOFIA's primary mirror assembly rests in its transportation cradle prior to reinstallation in NASA's airborne...
Engineers and technicians prepare SOFIA's German-built primary mirror assembly for reinstallation into NASA's 747SP...
echnicians lift SOFIA's primary mirror assembly above NASA's 747SP airborne astronomy aircraft just prior to...
SOFIA's primary mirror assembly is lifted above wing level prior to its reinstallation in the telescope cavity of...
Technicians at the NASA Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif., removed the German-built primary...
Technicians at NASA's Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif., loaded the German-built primary...
Technicians at NASA's Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif., loaded the German-built primary...
Technicians at the NASA Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif., removed the German-built primary...
Technicians at the NASA Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif., removed the German-built primary...
Technicians at the NASA Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif., removed the German-built primary...
Technicians at the NASA Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif., removed the German-built primary...
Technicians at NASA's Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif., loaded the German-built primary...
Technicians guide removal of the upper rigid door assembly that covers the telescope cavity on NASA's SOFIA 747SP in...
A PRIMARY MIRROR SEGMENT ASSEMBLY BEING CAREFULLY LOWERED TO ITS TEST STAND POSITION ALONGSIDE PREVIOUSLY INSTALLED...
SHIPPING CONTAINER LID BEING REMOVED TO REVEAL A SINGLE JWST PRIMARY MIRROR SEGMENT ASSEMBLY
A view of the one dozen (out of 18) flight mirror segments that make up the primary mirror on NASA's James Webb...
Caption: One dozen (out of 18) flight mirror segments that make up the primary mirror on NASA's James Webb Space...
ERNIE WRIGHT, TEST DIRECTOR, MONITORS MOVE OF TEST STAND WITH SIX JWST (JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE) PRIMARY MIRROR...
NASA image release April 13, 2011 An engineer examines the Webb telescope primary mirror Engineering Design Unit...
Caption: One dozen (out of 18) flight mirror segments that make up the primary mirror on NASA's James Webb Space...
A view of the one dozen (out of 18) flight mirror segments that make up the primary mirror on NASA's James Webb...
This image illustrates the Hubble Space Telescope's (HST's) Optical Telescope Assembly (OTA). One of the three major...