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A Day in the Life of a Cleanroom

Written on August 26, 2017 at , by

On the 9th of April the James Webb Space Telescope’s heart was installed at NASA’S Goddard Space flight centre. Situated in Greenbelt, Maryland, the site is home to the world’s largest cleanroom. The installation required an amazing precision ‘wiggle’ because the core piece of the telescope had to “avoid interference with already installed systems”. Maurice […]