Category Archives: "Webb"

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) commissioning is on the final stretch before the telescope can start science observations! With ...
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Today NASA released the first image from Webb with all 18 segments focused and functioning together as a single 6.5-meter ...
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This week the Webb telescope team kept the excitement going with two main developments. Light from a star made its ...
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Today Webb concluded a month of incredible achievements, and we checked off the last box on our deployment “To Do ...
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What do the Webb Space Telescope mirror segments and a tortoise have in common? They both take it slow and ...
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Now that the telescope is fully deployed, engineers started to unlock and move the mirror segments this week in preparation ...
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From the spectacular Ariane 5 rocket launch on Christmas day to the deployment of the solar panels, sunshield, and secondary ...
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Today the port side of Webb’s mirror was successfully unfolded. After a motor moved the wing into position, it took ...
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Webb’s cameras and spectrographs need to be cold. Really cold. They need to be so cold that engineers created specialized ...
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Today’s excitement came directly from the NASA livestream of the Mission Operations Center at Space Telescope Science Institute during the ...
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From an engineering perspective, Webb’s sunshield was one of the most difficult challenges to overcome in building the telescope. Unlike ...
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The year 2021 ended for the Webb Telescope in a nominal way. “Nominal” is spacecraft lingo for “everything is going ...
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