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In a Truly Historic Milestone, JWST Has Been Successfully Deployed! Now What?

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We can all let out a collective sigh of relief. With its primary mirror array fully unfolded, the major components of the beleaguered James Webb Space Telescope are now deployed, and it continues to calmly make its way to its destination.   The deployment, completed on 8 January 2022, marks a pretty important milestone for … Read more

The James Webb Space Telescope is fully deployed. So what’s next for the biggest observatory off Earth?

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Work for the James Webb Space Telescope is just beginning. On Saturday (Jan. 8), the new observatory, the largest space telescope ever built, successfully unfolded its final primary mirror segment to cap what NASA has billed as one of its most complicated deployments in space ever. The Webb mission team is now turning its attention … Read more