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During Wavefront Sensing and Control, or WFSC, software aboard the James Webb Space Telescope will compute the best position for each of 18 mirrors and one secondary mirror, and then adjust the positions. Here, engineers used a one-sixth scale model to test the WFSC software.
August 28, 2012 4:00 AM PDT
Photo by: NASA
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