{"id":391536,"date":"2022-01-09T04:23:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T01:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nasas-james-webb-telescope-opens-golden-mirrors-in-space\/"},"modified":"2022-01-09T04:23:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T01:23:43","slug":"nasas-james-webb-telescope-opens-golden-mirrors-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nasas-james-webb-telescope-opens-golden-mirrors-in-space\/","title":{"rendered":"#NASA&#8217;s James Webb telescope opens golden mirrors in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#NASA&#8217;s James Webb telescope opens golden mirrors in space<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Moving at a quarter of a mile per second in space, the James Webb Space Telescope got its golden wings Saturday in the final stage of its deployment since launch.<\/p>\n<p>The most powerful telescope ever built launched from French Guiana on Christmas morning, but the massive observatory had to be folded to fit inside the Ariane 5 rocket.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Webb\u2019s 21-foot-wide primary mirror was folded in two places like two ears on either side of a human head. One of those ears containing three hexagon mirrors opened on Friday, and the final step h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ened Saturday morning when teams deployed the last three mirrors on the starboard side. Now the telescope is in its final shape to look back into the cosmos.<\/p>\n<p>It was a massive milestone for the mission and the international team responsible for the launch and each step in the deployment. Webb is a global effort between NASA, the Canadian Space Agency and the European Space Agency.<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s chief scientist Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen appeared on NASA\u2019s live stream Saturday of the final deployment with a growing beard. Normally clean-shaven, Zurbuchen said he told his wife after Webb\u2019s launch, \u201cI\u2019m not going to shave until Webb is fully deployed.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since its launch, the telescope has been slowly unfolding itself in space piece by space. A huge step happened earlier this week when Webb\u2019s five-layer sunshield opened. Each layer had to be tensioned before the next.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/NASA1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"The NASA mission operations team cheers on after the final primary mirror wing is locked into place on the James Webb Space Telescope on January 8, 2022.\" class=\"wp-image-20765624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/NASA1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/NASA1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/NASA1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The NASA mission operations team cheers on after the final primary mirror wing is locked into place on the James Webb Space Telescope on Jan, 8, 2022.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">NASA\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Then, the secondary mirror attached to three long arms was brought out in front of the spacecraft. Lee Feinberg, optical telescope element manager for Webb at NASA\u2019s Goddard Spaceflight Center, called it the \u201cworld\u2019s most sophisticated <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>od.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s deployment of the primary mirror means the largest mirror ever in space has both wings open, and the telescope has completed each critical step to open from its launch cocoon. One hundred seventy-eight launch release mechanisms needed to unlatch for Webb to deploy fully. On Saturday, the final latches were released.<\/p>\n<p>The deployment team at the control center Space Telescope <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Science<\/a> Institute in Baltimore listened to some 1970s jams while checking off all the steps before the final mirrors could open. At one point, Anita Ward\u2019s \u201cRing my Bell\u201d could be heard through the NASA livestream.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/Thomas-Zurbuchen.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"NASA Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate Thomas Zurbuchen, left, and other NASA leadership listen as Julianna Scheiman, director for civil satellite missions at SpaceX, center, gives a tour of the hanger where the Falcon 9 rocket and DART spacecraft are being readied for launch,, at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. \" class=\"wp-image-20765654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/Thomas-Zurbuchen.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/Thomas-Zurbuchen.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/Thomas-Zurbuchen.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>NASA\u2019s chief scientist Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen (left) admitted he hasn\u2019t shaved since the James Webb Space telescope has been launched.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Telemetry from the spacecraft was translated to an animation showing the wing coming into place as it happened in space.<\/p>\n<p>As the final three mirrors aligned with the large golden telescope, a voice in the control center confirmed, \u201cWe have reached the end of deployment.\u201d Everyone in the control center applauded and cheered.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Webb will continue traveling through space for the next two weeks to reach its final orbit 1 million miles from Earth, known as the second Lagrange point or L2. The spacecraft still has about 230,000 miles to go in its journey. It\u2019s expected to arrive before the end of January.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/telescope2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"The James Webb Space Telescope was launched with Arianespace's Ariane 5 rocket at the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana on Dec. 25, 2021.\" class=\"wp-image-20765718\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/telescope2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/telescope2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/telescope2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The James Webb Space Telescope was launched with Arianespace\u2019s Ariane 5 rocket at the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana on Dec. 25, 2021.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Bill Ingalls\/UPI\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The next five months will be spent cooling the telescope, aligning the 18 individual mirrors that make up the primary mirror and calibrating the science instruments.<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center has a website dedicated to tracking Webb\u2019s progress. It provides distance, speed and temperature updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By design, JWST has a \u201ccool side\u201d and a \u201chot side.\u201d The hot side is the bottom of the spacecraft\u2019s tennis-court-sized sunshield, facing the sun and protecting Webb\u2019s instruments that need to operate at frigid temperatures.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>The cool side includes Webb\u2019s giant hexagonal-shaped mirror and will be negative 467 Fahrenheit at times. This presented an engineering challenge for teams building Webb because the telescope must operate in the sub-freezing temperatures of space, but it was built at room temperature on Earth. To ensure that everything would work in space, engineers put all the mirrors and instruments through cryo-vacuum testing at NASA\u2019s Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>The $10 billion JWST will build on the impressive legacy of the Hubble Space Telescope but is much more powerful. Webb will see in infrared light looking back to the first galaxies, discovering new worlds and helping solve unanswered questions about how we got here.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan you imagine, even in five years from now, how classes around the world will be impacted by the telescope being set up right now?\u201d Zurbuchen said.<\/p>\n<p>JWST could operate longer than its estimated 10-year lifespan and change what we know about the universe. Next-generation scientists will benefit from the mission.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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