{"id":137448,"date":"2022-03-28T19:02:31","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T02:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/james-webb-space-telescope-unfolds-mirrors-completes-deployment"},"modified":"2022-03-28T19:02:31","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T02:02:31","slug":"james-webb-space-telescope-unfolds-mirrors-completes-deployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/james-webb-space-telescope-unfolds-mirrors-completes-deployment","title":{"rendered":"James Webb Space Telescope unfolds mirrors, completes deployment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/james-webb-space-telescope-unfolds-mirrors-completes-deployment.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spreading its mirror wings was the telescope\u2019s last big step in its complicated deployment.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>NASA has pulled off the most technically audacious part of bringing its newest flagship observatory online: unfolding it.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Jan. 8, the operations team for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) announced that the observatory\u2019s primary mirror had successfully unfolded its segments \u2014 the last major step of the telescope\u2019s complicated deployment.<\/p>\n<p>The moment was a euphoric moment of validation for the entire team. \u201cWe\u2019re on an incredible high right now,\u201d said Bill Ochs, JWST\u2019s project manager, at a press conference. \u201cToday represents the beginning of a journey for this incredible machine, to its discoveries that we\u2019ll be making in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spreading its mirror wings was the telescope\u2019s 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\u2019s primary mirror had successfully unfolded [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137448","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}