Mirror Installation Complete for NASA's Next Space Telescope

Friday, February 5, 2016 - 07:40 in Astronomy & Space

Technicians have installed the 18th and final primary mirror segment on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, an $8.8 billion observatory that's scheduled to launch in 2018 to investigate some of the biggest questions in astronomy.

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