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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWebb Secondary Mirror Deployment Complete!
https://webb.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html?units=metricOne more (primary mirror) deployment to go...
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Webb Secondary Mirror Deployment Complete! (Original Post)
Disaffected
Jan 2022
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IrishAfricanAmerican
(3,816 posts)1. 👍🏼
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)2. Phew! Thanks, affected. I think I read that after that a final boost/tweaking
is made putting it on course to slip, after another couple weeks of travel to where no man has ever gone, into orbit at L2. Something like that.
Disaffected
(4,554 posts)3. Yes, on day 11 now,
insertion into L2 orbit scheduled for day 29. Not sure when course tweak is scheduled.
Here's a good site to view progress:
https://webb.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html?units=metric
Gore1FL
(21,130 posts)4. They have the segments that complete the primary, after that.
I hope it continues to have success!