James Webb Space Telescope Beryllium Mirror 2021. Considerably larger than the Hubble Space Telescopes 24 m mirror James Webbs mirror will be a massive 65 diameter mirror made up of 18 hexagonal gold-plated beryllium mirror segments. The James Webb Space Telescope is the largest and most powerful space science telescope ever built.
Although the James Webb Space Telescope was equipped with a more advanced system the instrument could not be repaired using Hubbles method. The 18-piece golden mirror attached to it can also. Considerably larger than the Hubble Space Telescopes 24 m mirror James Webbs mirror will be a massive 65 diameter mirror made up of 18 hexagonal gold-plated beryllium mirror segments.
The Webbs mirror has a diameter of 213 feet allowing it to capture six times more light than the iconic Hubble Telescope.
The James Webb Space Telescopes 18 special lightweight beryllium mirrors had to make 14 stops to 11 different places around the US. And an elaborate five-layer tennis-court-sized. Larkin Carey an optical engineer examining two test mirror segments for the James Webb Space Telescopes on a prototype at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Md in 2014. The 18-piece golden mirror attached to it can also.