
JWST Commissioning Bingo
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) commissioning is on the final stretch before the telescope can start science observations! With ...
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Many Segments are now One Mirror
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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Light in the Strangest of Places (if you look at it right)
This week the Webb telescope team kept the excitement going with two main developments. Light from a star made its ...
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Day 30: Last Deployment Box Checked Off!
Today Webb concluded a month of incredible achievements, and we checked off the last box on our deployment “To Do ...
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Day 25: Slow and Steady Wins in Space
What do the Webb Space Telescope mirror segments and a tortoise have in common? They both take it slow and ...
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Day 19: Moving Mirrors
Now that the telescope is fully deployed, engineers started to unlock and move the mirror segments this week in preparation ...
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Day 14: Webb’s Deployment is Complete!!
From the spectacular Ariane 5 rocket launch on Christmas day to the deployment of the solar panels, sunshield, and secondary ...
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Day 13: Mirror, Mirror – First Wing Unfolds
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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Day 12: Cool Telescope Gets a Little Cooler
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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Day 11: We have a telescope!
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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Day 10: Sunshield Deployment Complete!
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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Day 9: A Pause, and then Sunshield Tensioning Begins
The year 2021 ended for the Webb Telescope in a nominal way. “Nominal” is spacecraft lingo for “everything is going ...
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