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First wing of Webb telescope’s primary mirror folds into place
Artist’s illustration of the James Webb Space Telescope’s port-side mirror segment folded into place. Credit: NASAOne of the two wings holding three of the James Webb Space Telescope’s gold-coated mirror segments folded into place Friday, setting the stage for positioning of the other wing Saturday to complete the nearly $10 billion observatory’s major deployments. “Webb’s…
Webb Telescope’s Sunshield Fully Deployed
The Webb team has successfully completed tensioning for the five layers of the observatory’s kite-shaped sunshield. An artist’s impression of the James Webb Space Telescope. Image credit: ESA. The five-layered sunshield of the NASA/ESA/CAS James Webb Space Telescope — about the size of a tennis court at full size — was folded to fit inside…
Hubble telescope’s bigger, more powerful successor to soar
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Hubble Space Telescope’s successor is a time-traveling wonder capable of peering back to within a hair’s breadth of the dawn of the universe. And it's finally on the brink of flight.It will be the biggest and most powerful astronomical observatory ever to leave the planet, elaborate in its design…