James Webb Space Telescope Deployment Complete

JWST
NASA JWST Project Manager Bill Ochs, left, and Telescope Commissioning Manager John Durning share a celebratory fist bump after confirming the observatory’s primary mirror wing was locked into place.
Credit: NASA / Bill Ingalls
CAPE CANAVERAL—Two weeks after the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was launched into orbit, the final segment of its 21-ft.-dia. primary mirror—the largest mirror ever flown on a space observatory—was rotated into position, completing NASA’s risky and most technically complicated series of in...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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