{"id":133713,"date":"2022-01-07T11:23:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T19:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/they-say-that-good-things-take-time-but-the-james-webb-space-telescope-is-well-on-its-way-to-exploring-the-universe"},"modified":"2022-01-07T11:23:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T19:23:12","slug":"they-say-that-good-things-take-time-but-the-james-webb-space-telescope-is-well-on-its-way-to-exploring-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/they-say-that-good-things-take-time-but-the-james-webb-space-telescope-is-well-on-its-way-to-exploring-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"They say that good things take time, but the James Webb Space Telescope is well on its way to exploring the universe!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/they-say-that-good-things-take-time-but-the-james-webb-space-telescope-is-well-on-its-way-to-exploring-the-universe2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude80<\/p>\n<p>In the two weeks since its launch on December 25 at 7:20 am ET, Webb has successfully completed many milestones:<\/p>\n<p>\u2728 Webb released and deployed its solar array, which means the telescope went off battery power and began to use its own generated power.<br \/> \u2728 Webb has had two planned mid-course correction burns. Webb was launched on a direct path to an orbit around the second Lagrange Point (L2), but its trajectory required correction maneuvers to get there.<br \/> \u2728 The 5-layer sunshield has been fully deployed and tensioned. Did we mention it is the size of a tennis court? \ud83e\udd2f<br \/> \u2728 Webb\u2019s secondary mirror, which plays an important role in reflecting light collected by the primary mirror into the telescope\u2019s instruments, has been deployed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\ude80 In the two weeks since its launch on December 25 at 7:20 am ET, Webb has successfully completed many milestones: \u2728 Webb released and deployed its solar array, which means the telescope went off battery power and began to use its own generated power. \u2728 Webb has had two planned mid-course correction burns. Webb [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133713","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\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}