CNN At This Hour With Kate Bolduan December 24, 2021 16:46:00
As you can see from that image in my background, the mirror is not one single mirror. it's 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 that's 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 represent? >> so i think this launch remits a lot of things. first of all, it's a technological marvel. w...
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