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Webb telescope’s guiding light from Canada received by NASA Goddard

September 9, 2010

The Canadian Space Agency has delivered a test unit of the Fine Guidance Sensor to the James Webb Space Telescope to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.


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