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January 25, 2022 07:00 am
Original Link: https://science.slashdot.org/story/22/01/24/236220/the-james-webb-space-telescope-arrives-at-its-final-orbit?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=
The James Webb Space Telescope Arrives At Its Final Orbit
NASA has confirmed that the James Webb Space Telescope has successfully entered its final orbit around the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point after one last course correction burn. Engadget reports: The telescope's primary mirror segments and secondary mirror have already been deployed, but you'll have to wait until the summer for the first imagery. NASA will spend the next several months readying the JWST for service, including a three-month optics alignment process. The L2 orbit is crucial to the telescope's mission. It provides a largely unobstructed view of space while giving the spacecraft a cold, interference-free position that helps its instruments live up to their full potential. The JWST is expected to study the early Universe using infrared light, providing data that wouldn't be available from an Earth orbit telescope like Hubble.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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