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Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope Primary Mirror Fully Assembled


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James Webb Space Telescope mirrors

Inside a massive clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland the James Webb Space Telescope team used a robotic am to install the last of the telescope's 18 mirrors onto the telescope structure.

Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn

The 18th and final primary mirror segment is installed on what will be the biggest and most powerful space telescope ever launched.

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