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Webb Telescope
NASAs Webb Reaches Alignment
Mar 16,2022
Milestone; Optics Working Successfully
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NASA to Discuss Progress as Webb
Telescope's Mirrors Align
Following the completion of critical mirror alignment steps; NASA's James Webb Space Telescope team expects that Webb's optical performance will be able to
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meet or exceed the science goals the observatory was built to achieve.
NASA to Discuss Webb Telescope Progress,
On March 11
the Webb team completed the stage of alignment known as "fine phasing_
At this key stage in the commissioning of Webb's Optical Telescope
Mirror Alignment
Element; every optical parameter that has been checked and tested is performing at; or above, expectations_
The team also found no critical issues and no
month ago
measurable contamination or blockages to Webb's optical
The observatory is able to successfully gather light from distant objects and deliver it to its
instruments without issue.
NASA to Discuss Webb's Arrival at Final
Although there are months to go before Webb ultimately delivers its new view of the cosmos; achieving
Destination; Next Steps
this milestone means the team is confident that Webb's first-of-its-kind optical system is working as
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well as possible_
"More than 20 years ago, the Webb team set out tO build the most powerful telescope that anyone has
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ever
in space and came up with an audacious optical design to meet demanding science goals
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said Thomas Zurbuchen;
associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in
2 months ago
Washington:
Today we can say that design is going tO deliver:
One Year into the Biden Administration;
While some of the largest ground-based telescopes on Earth use segmented primary mirrors, Webb is
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the first telescope in space t0 use such
design: The 21-foot; 4-inch (6.5-meter) primary mirror
much
2 months ag0
tOO
big to fit inside
rocket fairing
is made up of 18 hexagonal, beryllium mirror segments
It had to
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focus on the bright star
be folded up for launch and then unfolded in space before each mirror was adjusted
tO within
the center for alignment evaluation
Webb's optics and NIRCam
nanometers
to form
single mirror surace.
sensitive that the galaxies and stars
seen in the
background show up
this stage
Webb's mirror alignment,
"In addition to enabling the incredible science that Webb will achieve, the teams that designed; built,
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as "fine phasing;
each
the primary mirror segments
tested, launched, and now operate this observatory have pioneered
new way t0 build space
have been adjusted
produce one unified image of the same
star using onlv the NIRCam instrument; This imade of the star
path:
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