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World's Largest Space Telescope Is Complete, Expected to Launch in 2018

17 pointsby hackerkidover 8 years ago

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hgaover 8 years ago
<i>Then, it will be moved to Texas, where its focus will be tested, and then to California for some final assembly. The testing is particularly high-stakes, because unlike Hubble, which was repaired and refocused in orbit by astronauts, this telescope is not intended to be repaired by humans.</i><p>Glad they learned something from the Hubble debacle, where it was not ground correctly and they didn&#x27;t bother to do an end to end test before launch. &quot;Refocused&quot; also really doesn&#x27;t described the fix, it was more like adding eyeglasses to the optical path to mitigate the problem.