Testing is the spacecraft equivalent of @NASA_Astronauts training. But how does a space telescope like #NASAWebb “train” for its launch journey?
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1) Let’s start with liftoff. A rocket launch is 100 times more intense and 4 times louder than a rock concert!
To simulate that level of extreme noise, Webb’s complete structure was recently blasted with powerful sound waves.
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Replying to @NASAWebb
Did you literally play some loud music for it? that would be fun i imagine
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Replying to @ToastyPatrick
The acoustic test was just extremely loud sound, not music, but guess we’ll have to start working on our #NASAWebb launch playlist!
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