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As NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope makes its way out to its intended orbit, ground teams monitor its vitals using a comprehensive set of sensors located throughout the entire spacecraft. Mechanical, ...

The James Webb telescope completed its final major step of deployment on Saturday morning, when the last mirror wing of the telescope unfolded in space into its final configuration. Two weeks after ...

New York -- The James Webb Space Telescope is on the move toward the cosmos. The telescope's 21-foot, gold-coated mirrors are in their final stage of deployment. The Webb mission will explore ...

Slowly but surely, the James Webb Space Telescope is taking shape. Following its successful launch on Christmas Day 2021, NASA has been deploying systems one after another to get the telescope into ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is often introduced in classrooms as a “bigger, better Hubble,” but the reality is far ...

After more than a decade of design work and pathfinder fabrication, the lightweight five-layer sunshield that will keep the sensitive infrared detectors on the James Webb Space Telescope at 40K is in ...