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January 30, 2014

NGC Completes Critical Design Review For James Webb Space Telescope
Redondo Beach, CA (SPX) Jan 30, 2014
Northrop Grumman has passed the last significant mission design milestone for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the spacecraft Critical Design Review (CDR), five months ahead of schedule, following the replan. The spacecraft provides the power and communications for the whole observatory and is responsible for pointing the telescope and image stabilization. Northrop Grumman is under contract to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., for the design and development of the Webb Telesc ... read more

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