Showing posts with label OPTICAL TELESCOPE ELEMENT. Show all posts
Showing posts with label OPTICAL TELESCOPE ELEMENT. Show all posts

Saturday, May 12, 2012

TESTING THE COLD TEMPERATURES OF SPACE



Testing Webb Telescope‘s OSIM and BIA Instruments – The OTE (Optical Telescope Element) Simulator or OSIM wrapped in a silver blanket on a platform, being lowered down into a vacuum chamber (called the Space Environment Simulator, or SES) by a crane to be tested to withstand the cold temperatures of space. (Photo Credit NASA Goddard/Chris Gunn

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