Tag Archives: "Webb"

What do the Webb Space Telescope mirror segments and a tortoise have in common? They both take it slow and ...

An international research team will survey the stars, star clusters, and dust that lie within 19 nearby galaxies ...

Now that the telescope is fully deployed, engineers started to unlock and move the mirror segments this week in preparation ...

From the spectacular Ariane 5 rocket launch on Christmas day to the deployment of the solar panels, sunshield, and secondary ...

Today the port side of Webb’s mirror was successfully unfolded. After a motor moved the wing into position, it took ...

Today’s excitement came directly from the NASA livestream of the Mission Operations Center at Space Telescope Science Institute during the ...

From an engineering perspective, Webb’s sunshield was one of the most difficult challenges to overcome in building the telescope. Unlike ...

The year 2021 ended for the Webb Telescope in a nominal way. “Nominal” is spacecraft lingo for “everything is going ...

Today saw the beginning of one of the most difficult Webb deployments so far, the sunshield rollout. The Webb telescope ...

The Webb team at the Mission Operations Center (MOC) at Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland started the ...

Because of its picture-perfect launch, Webb used less fuel than anticipated for its mid-course correction burns. Less fuel burned now ...

Unitized Pallet Structures (UPS) unfold. These two pallets (one forward and the other aft) hold the folded sunshield layers. The ...