Friday, January 21, 2022

James Webb Space Telescope Has Deployed All Hexagonal Mirror Segments, NASA Says

NASA said it has completed deploying all the hexagonal mirror segments of its James Webb Space Telescope. The delicate operation to move the $10-billion (roughly Rs. 74,500 crore) space observatory's individual mirror segments out of their launch positions took nearly a week, during which the motors made over a million revolutions.

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