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Mission Milestones
June - October 1997
The Mirror Assembly has been shipped to the Space and Electronics Group at TRW, Redondo Beach, California, where it will be integrated with the spacecraft. The Science Instruments have been shipped to Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation in Boulder, Colorado, where they will be inserted into the science instrument module.
In October of 1997, the instruments and the module are due at TRW in Redondo Beach. There the instruments will be put together with the spacecraft and mirror assembly, and the observatory will be tested as a unit for six months before being shipped to Cape Canaveral where it will undergo still more tests in preparation for the 1999 launch.
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