[Vision2020] 1-9-22: James Webb Space Telescope fully deploys, Northrop Grumman marks sunshield success

Ted Moffett starbliss at gmail.com
Tue Jan 11 17:27:58 PST 2022


There is no repair mission possible for the lagrange L2 point positioned
James Webb Space Telescope, a million miles from Earth, unlike the space
shuttle repair mission for the Hubble telescope, which had a defective
mirror.
Orbit - Webb/NASA <https://webb.nasa.gov/content/about/orbit.html>

But so far the reports indicate a success!

James Webb Space Telescope fully deploys, Northrop Grumman marks sunshield
success - NASASpaceFlight.com
<https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2022/01/jwst-sunshield-deployment/>
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