James Webb Space Telescope's Actual 'Spine' Now Being Built
Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 05:22
in Astronomy & Space
Scientists and engineers who have been working on the James Webb Space Telescope mission for years are getting very excited, because some of the actual pieces that will fly aboard the Webb telescope are now being built. One of the pieces, called the Backplane, is like a "spine" to the telescope. The Backplane is now being assembled by Alliant Techsystems at its Magna, Utah facility.