The telescope is getting ready to assume its final form as it continues to sail toward its final destination. engineering
The deployment is very high risk for a number of reasons, the biggest of which is that nobody has attempted something like this before in space.
That transformation is now underway and will require many mechanical operations to succeed, and a failure among any of them could be fatal to the entire mission. When people talk about theon Webb, nearly all of them are going to be attempted in the next two weeks.
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