Shaking a Nearly 9 Billion Dollar Space Telescope – JWST Vibration Test Video

By Steve Spaleta | March 31, 2017 12:32pm ET

The rigors of launch demand extreme testing for payloads. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was recently placed on a shake table to simulate vibrations it will endure. The telescope has an estimated “life-cycle cost of $8.835 billion dollars (USD),” according to the space agency.  

credit : NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

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