Mar 28, 2022
James Webb Space Telescope unfolds mirrors, completes deployment
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: futurism, space
Spreading its mirror wings was the telescope’s last big step in its complicated deployment.
NASA has pulled off the most technically audacious part of bringing its newest flagship observatory online: unfolding it.
On Saturday, Jan. 8, the operations team for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) announced that the observatory’s primary mirror had successfully unfolded its segments — the last major step of the telescope’s complicated deployment.
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