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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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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Another step for science!!!!

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