Social Media Short: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Completes Testing

Engineering teams have completed the James Webb Space Telescope’s long-spanning comprehensive testing regimen at Northrop Grumman’s facilities. Webb’s many tests and checkpoints were designed to ensure that the world’s most complex space science observatory will operate as designed once in space. Now that observatory testing has concluded, shipment operations have begun. This includes all the necessary steps to prepare Webb for a safe journey through the Panama Canal to its launch location in Kourou, French Guiana, on the northeastern coast of South America. Read more: Download this video: Credits: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Music Credit: Interstellar Travels, Copyright, 2012, Soundcast Music [SESAC], Christian Telford, David Travis Edwards, Matthew St Laurent, Robert Anthony Navarro Michael P. Menzel (AIMM): Lead Producer Thaddeu