Uploaded August 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Engineering teams have completed the James Webb Space Telescope’s long-spanning comprehensive testing regimen at Northrop Grumman’s facilities. Webb’s many tests and checkpoints were designed to ensure that the world’s most complex space science observatory will operate as designed once in space. Now that observatory testing has concluded, shipment operations have begun. This includes all the necessary steps to prepare Webb for a safe journey through the Panama Canal to its launch location in Kourou, French Guiana, on the northeastern coast of South America.
Read more: nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/nasa-s-james-webb-space-telescope-has-completed-testing
Download this video: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13923
Credits: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Music Credit: Interstellar Travels, Copyright, 2012, Soundcast Music [SESAC], Christian Telford, David Travis Edwards, Matthew St Laurent, Robert Anthony Navarro
Michael P. Menzel (AIMM): Lead Producer
Thaddeus Cesari (X3M Systems): Writer
Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET): Technical Support
Sophia Roberts (AIMM): Videographer
Michael P. Menzel (AIMM): Lead Videographer
Michael P. Menzel (AIMM): Video Editor
Engineering teams have completed the James Webb Space Telescope’s long-spanning comprehensive testing regimen at Northrop Grumman’s facilities. Webb’s many tests and checkpoints were designed to ensure that the world’s most complex space science observatory will operate as designed once in space. Now that observatory testing has concluded, shipment operations have begun. This includes all the necessary steps to prepare Webb for a safe journey through the Panama Canal to its launch location in Kourou, French Guiana, on the northeastern coast of South America.
Read more: nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/nasa-s-james-webb-space-telescope-has-completed-testing
Download this video: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13923
Credits: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Music Credit: Interstellar Travels, Copyright, 2012, Soundcast Music [SESAC], Christian Telford, David Travis Edwards, Matthew St Laurent, Robert Anthony Navarro
Michael P. Menzel (AIMM): Lead Producer
Thaddeus Cesari (X3M Systems): Writer
Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET): Technical Support
Sophia Roberts (AIMM): Videographer
Michael P. Menzel (AIMM): Lead Videographer
Michael P. Menzel (AIMM): Video Editor
