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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by PrimalMustelid talk 01:53, 6 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  • ... that some of the optics for the James Webb Space Telescope were made at the NETPark science park in northern England? Source: [1] "The CfAI, based at NETPark, in Sedgefield, is also part of a second project to benefit from the investment, which aims to improve communication speeds in tiny nano-satellites called cubeSats." ... "The CfAI will be responsible for the optomechanical design of the system and the project will benefit from its in-house space optics manufacturing facility at NETPark. The CfAI’s Precision Optics Laboratory, is equipped with state-of-the-art ultra-precision diamond machine, which can produce freeform optical surfaces within sub-micron accuracy." ... "Separately, the CfAI is involved in some of the world’s biggest and most prestigious telescope projects. It has made some of the optics for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Near Infrared Spectrograph’s (NIRSpec) Integral Field Unit instrument and Durham’s scientists have been involved in the new telescope’s scientific development."
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Moved to mainspace by Robminchin (talk). Self-nominated at 03:42, 11 October 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/NETPark; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

  • New enough and long enough. Nominator is confirmed QPQ-exempt. Hook fact checks out and is in article. Earwig is only catching some of the various organization names in the page. No issues here. Sammi Brie (she/her • tc) 06:11, 25 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]