Tower test: complete
#NASAWebb testing teams successfully extended and deployed a critical part of the observatory called the Deployable Tower Assembly.
During the test, the tower was extended in the same way it will once in space!
More: https://go.nasa.gov/30wgNl7 pic.twitter.com/8COEWGVPKV
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Now that the observatory has been fully assembled, the difficulty and complexity of both testing and work on Webb has increased significantly. Special tools, lifts and cranes are used to provide engineers and technicians with the best angle of approach to do their work.pic.twitter.com/LiGd6wk29B
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Simulating the zero-gravity environment Webb will operate in, engineers employed an innovative series of pulleys, counterbalances and a special crane called a gravity-negation system that perfectly offloaded all of the effects of Earth’s gravity on the observatory.pic.twitter.com/vp6tYkxoIk
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