{"id":129586,"date":"2022-01-13T12:57:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T12:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=129586"},"modified":"2022-01-13T12:57:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T12:57:53","slug":"james-webb-telescope-completes-deployment-sequence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/james-webb-telescope-completes-deployment-sequence\/","title":{"rendered":"James Webb telescope completes Deployment Sequence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: What type of orbit placement has been planned by the NASA for recently launched James Webb Telescope?<\/strong><br>a) LEO<br>b) L2<br>c) Geo-synchronous<br>d) None of these<br><strong>Answer: (b)<br>Related Facts:-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On 08 January 2022; the golden reflector, the centerpiece mirror of James Webb telescope deployed fully as it completely unfolded its full, 6.5m-wide, concave shape.<\/li><li>It should be noted that the two wings of Webb\u2019s primary mirror had been folded to fit inside the nose cone of an Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket prior to launch.<\/li><li>After more than a week of other critical spacecraft deployments, the Webb team began remotely unfolding the hexagonal segments of the primary mirror.<\/li><li>This was a multi-day process, with the first side and the second side deployed on January 07 and 08 , 2021 respectively.<\/li><li>The world\u2019s largest and most complex space science telescope will now begin moving its 18 primary mirror segments to align the telescope optics.<\/li><li>The ground team will command 126 actuators on the backsides of the segments to flex each mirror \u2013 an alignment that will take months to complete.<\/li><li>Then the team will calibrate the science instruments prior to delivering Webb\u2019s first images by the summer in 2022.<\/li><li>Now Webb will also undergo a third mid-course correction burn \u2013 one of three planned to place the telescope precisely in the orbit.<\/li><li>Scientists and their team at NASA has already decided the precise orbit for Webb around the second Lagrange point( commonly known as L2)<\/li><li>L2 is nearly 1 million miles from Earth and this is the Webb\u2019s final orbital position.<\/li><li>It is the position where its sunshield will protect it from light from the Sun, Earth, and Moon that could interfere with observations of infrared light.<\/li><li>James Webb, one of the most advanced telescope ever made by humans, is designed to peer back over 13.5 billion years into the space.<\/li><li>It is able to capture infrared light from celestial objects, with much higher resolution, and to study our own solar system as well as distant worlds.<\/li><li>Gregory L. Robinson, Webb program director at NASA said that the successful completion of all of the Webb Space Telescope\u2019s deployments is an historic achievement.<\/li><li>He said that this is the first time a NASA-led mission has ever attempted to complete a complex sequence to unfold an observatory in space.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Rajesh Tripathi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:-<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/nasa-s-webb-telescope-reaches-major-milestone-as-mirror-unfolds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/nasa-s-webb-telescope-reaches-major-milestone-as-mirror-unfolds<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: What type of orbit placement has been planned by the NASA for recently launched James Webb Telescope?a) LEOb) L2c) Geo-synchronousd) None of theseAnswer: (b)Related Facts:- On 08 January 2022; the golden reflector, the centerpiece mirror of James Webb telescope deployed fully as it completely unfolded its full, 6.5m-wide, concave shape. 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