WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE MIRROR FULLY DEPLOYED!

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From Space.com:
"It's official, the primary mirror of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is completely deployed, the final step of its unprecedented two-week deployment phase that began with a Dec. 25 launch."

https://www.space.com/news/live/james-w ... pe-updates

Hip hip hooray! Congratulations to NASA, ESA, CSA and the Webb team!

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[Frankskywatcher]

It’s so awesome watching this !

[Makuser]

Hello Stephen. Wow, this is great news for us all. All of the 178 mechanism firings that were vital were a success. Thanks for the Webb Space Telescope progress update report Stephen.

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Here's another new article from Space.com:
"James Webb Space Telescope, the biggest ever built, fully unfolds giant mirror to gaze at the cosmos"

https://www.space.com/james-webb-space- ... y-deployed

"Astronomers and space fans around the world can breathe a sigh of relief: The James Webb Space Telescope is now fully deployed."

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Here's another new article from Ars Technica:
"Remarkably, NASA has completed deployment of the Webb space telescope"

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/01 ... telescope/

"After a quarter century of effort by tens of thousands of people, more than $10 billion in taxpayer funding, and some 350 deployment mechanisms that had to go just so, the James Webb Space Telescope fully unfurled its wings. The massive spacecraft completed its final deployments and, by God, the process went smoothly."

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