It has arrived!! So exciting!!!
Cool! I heard it was going to do the last burn to get to L2 and assume that went OK?
Yes! Deploying the mirrors, the heat shield... everything went perfectly last I saw... can't wait 'til summer!!
On 26 Jan 2022 at 04:28p, seeLive pondered and said...
Yes! Deploying the mirrors, the heat shield... everything went perfec last I saw... can't wait 'til summer!!
Yay, yes me too this has been a cool project to follow and will continue to be so.
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The first engineering images used to help calibrate the mirrors were published earlier this week. There is a primary mirror "selfie"
published with those as well. It's all over the news, so I won't repeat the articles, but worth a quick Google search and read on NASA's blog. There is a neat interview video posted, too. Pretty amazing (and weird) to be part of this every day and see stuff on mainstream media. It's surreal.
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