The James Webb Space Telescope is nearing completion of the first phase of the months-long process of aligning the observatory’s primary mirror using the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument.
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NASA announced Today, at 2 p.m. EST, the James Webb Space Telescope fired its onboard thrusters for nearly five minutes (297 seconds) to complete the final postlaunch course correction to Webb’s trajectory.
Set for launch tomorrow at 7:20am EST (12:20 GMT) is NASA’s long awaited James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). A telescope which began its development in 1996 & after 25 years of development, it will enable scientists to peer further back in the universe’s history than ever before.