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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
STScI: Capturing All That Glitters in Galaxies with NASA’s Webb
An international research team will survey the stars, star clusters, and dust that lie within 19 nearby galaxies ...
Day 19: Moving Mirrors
Now that the telescope is fully deployed, engineers started to unlock and move the mirror segments this week in preparation ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Day 6: Sunshield Booms begin to deploy
Today saw the beginning of one of the most difficult Webb deployments so far, the sunshield rollout. The Webb telescope ...
Day 5: Webb’s Aft Momentum Flap and Sunshield Covers Deployed
The Webb team at the Mission Operations Center (MOC) at Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland started the ...
