Video: Engineers Conduct Heart Surgery on the James Webb Space Telescope
Engineers Conduct Heart Surgery on the James Webb Space Telescope
NASA.
In this 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 (micro shutter array and focal plane assembly) from the “heart” of an instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
