{"id":134568,"date":"2022-01-23T17:22:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T01:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/webb-space-telescope-nears-its-destination-almost-a-million-miles-from-earth-ready-for-critical-mirror-alignment"},"modified":"2022-01-23T17:22:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T01:22:43","slug":"webb-space-telescope-nears-its-destination-almost-a-million-miles-from-earth-ready-for-critical-mirror-alignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/webb-space-telescope-nears-its-destination-almost-a-million-miles-from-earth-ready-for-critical-mirror-alignment","title":{"rendered":"Webb space telescope nears its destination almost a million miles from Earth, ready for critical mirror alignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6cUe4oMk69E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If all goes well, the telescope will remain in that six-month orbit for the rest of its operational life, firing its thruster periodically to remain on station.<\/p>\n<p><b>Getting ready to capture \u201c\u2018wow\u2019 images\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p>With the orbit insertion burn behind them, engineers will press ahead with mirror alignment, one of the most complex aspects of Webb\u2019s already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/james-webb-space-telescope-launch-pad-challenges-discovery\/\" target=\"_blank\">complicated deployment<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If all goes well, the telescope will remain in that six-month orbit for the rest of its operational life, firing its thruster periodically to remain on station. Getting ready to capture \u201c\u2018wow\u2019 images\u201d With the orbit insertion burn behind them, engineers will press ahead with mirror alignment, one of the most complex aspects of Webb\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134568","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}