Video Snapshot: James Webb Space Telescope Flight Instrument Module Testing

4,374 views · Published 23 June 2014 · 2:01 · Indexed 1 October 2026

Channel: James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) · 2014 · Science & Technology

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Engineers move the heart of the Webb Telescope holding all four science instruments out of the clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and into the huge Space Environment Simulator for several months of testing at temperatures reaching 20 Kelvin or -425 Fahrenheit. 

Download this video in HD formats (plus associated B-roll) from NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio:
http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011500/a011570/

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