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Mar 16,2022
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NASA's Webb Reaches
Alignment Milestone,
Optics Working
Successfully
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Following the completion of critical mirror alignment
steps, NASAs James Webb Space Telescope team
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expects that Webb's optical performance will be able to
meet or exceed the science goals the observatory was
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built to achieve.
On March 11
the Webb team
completed the stage of
alignment known as "fine phasing:" At this
stage in
the commissioning of Webb's Optical Telescope
Element; every optica?
parameter that has been checked
and tested is performing at; or above, expectations. The
team also found no critical
issues and no measurable
contamination or blockages to Webb's optical path: The
ohservatorv is able t0 successfullv aather liaht from
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