NASA’s giant James Webb Space Telescope has launched its rocket engines in five minutes and reached its final destination, where it will explore the universe for the remainder of its service and capture the light emitted after the Big Bang.
The telescope has been in space for a month since it was launched from the European Space Agency in French Guiana.
This caused a final correction in the path, which would be 1 million miles from Earth for the third time since the telescope was launched into gravity.
The telescope orbits where the gravitational forces of the Sun and Earth are in equilibrium, so it requires only a small amount of fuel, and it constantly faces the night side of the planet to keep its infrared devices at low temperatures.
High-stakes, long-delayed work with ambitious astronomical targets and a $ 10 billion budget have gone well beyond a large list of potential obstacles that have plagued engineers for years.
Newspaper quotes Washington Post John Dorning, deputy director of the US space agency’s (NASA) web program, said “everything went according to plan.”
“It’s shocking. We expected challenges as they happen in every mission. But nothing went wrong,” he added.
The telescope used its solar arrays, a solar shield and 18 gold-plated hexagonal mirrors.
The regular launch of the telescope led to “doubling its operational life” which claimed that the telescope did not discharge as much fuel as expected, which saved a lot of fuel and extended the life of the telescope by 10 years. , As planned, for 20 years, according to Torning.
The telescope can capture light emitted a few hundred million years after the 13.8 billion year old Big Bang.
The telescope is thought to be able to see the first galaxies and study the evolution of the universe, and it can also see objects very close to Earth, including our solar system.
The telescope was designed in the 1980s and has been in development since the mid-1990s.
The main challenge of the telescope is to synchronize all its mirrors to the same focal length and give its images the perfect resolution.
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