Instrument Cold News Today

As you can see from that image in my background, the mirror is not one single mirror. its 18 segments, all hexagonal and we can fold the edge elements around the side of the telescope and the instrument package so that it fits. so thats a very new approach to d doing this. >> just fascinating. this was first imagined, i was reading, as a successor to hubble in 89. this took thousands of scientists, technicians, engineers, 14 countries, i think i saw, to build this. what does this launch represen...