James Webb Space Telescope Ready To Start Its Mission, Like What?

KOMPAS.com – Currently, Telescope Outer space James Webb United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is fully open and ready to carry out observation missions outer space.

The team has finished preparing James Webb Space Telescope worth 10 billion US dollars, a complicated process that took more than six months.

“All of the seventeen ways to operate Webb’s scientific instruments have now been examined. That is (telescope space) James Webb has completed activities comissioningand ready to start full scientific operations,” the team member wrote as quoted from SpaceWednesday (13/7/2022).

space telescope It was launched on the Arianespace Ariane V rocket on December 25, 2021, and embarked on a month-long journey into the orbit of Lagrange Point 2 (L2), a gravitationally stable place in space about 930,000 miles (1.5 million Km) from Earth.

Team members carried out a series of complex launches during the trip, and succeeded in setting milestones such as opening five layers of sun visors telescopic head James Webbabout the size of a tennis court.

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Preparations continued long after the observatory got to L2, as the team worked hard to procure these four super-sensitive telescope science instruments at high speed from the James Webb Space Telescope.

Each of these instruments can operate in a variety of modes, with the last mode fully examined.

“Last of all 17 assigned instrument modes is NIRCam’s coronagraph capability, most of which work to block incoming stellar light, suppressing the relatively bright light from the target star to increase contrast and allow detection of faint nearby exoplanets such as exoplanets,” NASA said.

Meanwhile, the James Webb telescope will do more than just study exoplanets. The multipurpose observatory will also peer into some of the stars and galaxies that once formed in the universe and study objects in the solar system, among many other tasks.

Telescope James Webb start doing such work, even before it is fully up and running. The James Webb Space Telescope has managed to take various scientific pictures that are useful for understanding more about the solar system.

Also read: James Webb Telescope Releases First Color Photo Of The Universe

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