{"id":111890,"date":"2020-08-25T06:22:30","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T13:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/nasas-james-webb-space-telescope-successfully-completes-a-critical-milestone"},"modified":"2020-08-25T07:26:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T14:26:09","slug":"nasas-james-webb-space-telescope-successfully-completes-a-critical-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/nasas-james-webb-space-telescope-successfully-completes-a-critical-milestone","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope Successfully Completes a Critical Milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-james-webb-space-telescope-successfully-completes-a-critical-milestone2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Testing teams have successfully completed a critical milestone focused on demonstrating that NASAs James Webb Space Telescope will respond to commands once in space.<\/p>\n<p>Known as a \u201cGround Segment Test,\u201d this is the first time commands to power on and test Webb\u2019s scientific instruments have been sent to the fully-assembled observatory from its Mission Operations Center at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland.<\/p>\n<p>Since reliably communicating with Webb when in space is a mission-critical priority for NASA, tests like these are part of a comprehensive regimen designed to validate and ensure all components of the observatory will function in space with the complex communications networks involved in both sending commands, and downlinking scientific data. This test successfully demonstrated the complete end-to-end flow from planning the science Webb will perform to posting the scientific data to the community archive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Testing teams have successfully completed a critical milestone focused on demonstrating that NASAs James Webb Space Telescope will respond to commands once in space. Known as a \u201cGround Segment Test,\u201d this is the first time commands to power on and test Webb\u2019s scientific instruments have been sent to the fully-assembled observatory from its Mission Operations [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111891,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111890\/revisions\/111891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}