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Northrop Grumman-built JWST sunshield meets fabrication and test milestones

Submit on Wednesday, June 27th, 2012 22:56

The preflight test layers of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope sunshield are meeting expected performance targets during tests by engineers at Northrop Grumman Corporation (NOC). The company is under contract to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center for the design and development of Webb’s sunshield, telescope and spacecraft.

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