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February marked noteworthy progress for the James Webb Space Telescope of NASA as it completed its last functional performance tests at the Redondo Beach, California-based Northrop Grumman.
According to a Space Coast Daily report, testing teams were successful in completing two important milestones that verified the internal electronics of the observatory are all functioning, as they are designed for, as seen on Cosmoknowledge s YouTube video below, and that the spacecraft, including its four scientific instruments, can both deliver and receive data appropriately through the same network they will utilize in space.
Such milestones move the NASA telescope closer to prepared for launch later this year, specifically in October. The said trials are known as the all-inclusive systems test, which occurred in the Northrop Grumman, and the ground segment trial, which occurred in collaboration with the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.