JAKARTA, iNews.id – NASA has confirmed the antenna on Telescope James Webb Spaceship has been successfully installed. Scientists call it a gimbal antenna assembly.
The antenna assembly carries the high-level data dish that is responsible for transmitting Webb’s observations of the formation of the early universe back to Earth.
“This antenna will be used to transmit at least 28.6 Gbytes of science data from the observatory, twice a day. The team has now released and tested the motion of the antenna assembly. The entire process took about an hour,” NASA officials wrote, quoted from Space.
The telescope, which cost 10 billion US dollars, was designed to study the universe’s earliest stars and other cosmic mysteries. It is the largest and most powerful telescope ever launched into space.
The antenna installation is part of a month-long series of steps to prepare the telescope for its space-observation mission. Webb is currently on a 29-day journey to a stable point in space called Lagrange Point 2, or L2, which is nearly 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) from Earth.
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