Video: Engineers conduct "heart surgery" on the Webb telescope
Monday, June 1, 2015 - 08:00
in Astronomy & Space
In this new NASA video, engineers from Airbus Defense and Space (DS), Ottobrunn, Germany, dressed in white protective suits and special white gloves, recently completed a delicate surgical procedure to exchange two key components from the "heart" of an instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.