The James Webb telescope has been in space for about eleven days and is moving towards its final orbit. The last step left is to unfold the primary mirror - this step will probably be completed on January 6 or 7 - the rest of the steps have been completed in a cheerful manner.
In this graphic you can see the condition of the telescope in which all its parts were folded so that it could be mounted in the rocket. The various parts of it have been unfolded - today its secondary mirror has been locked in the correct position - if the last step is fixed without any difficulty then the James Webb telescope will reach its final configuration.
Folding such a complex and sensitive telescope in such a way as to unfold its parts one by one in space and in such a way that the sensitivity, accuracy, and precision of the telescope is maintained is a battle of engineering which many Will be remembered for decades - remember that all the tests to unfold this telescope were done on the ground where the response of materials due to gravity is different from that of space - therefore the members of this mission from the launch of this telescope. There was so much tension that although all its mechanisms were repeatedly tested on the ground, it was not possible to test these mechanisms in space before launch.
The perfect launch of this telescope is to be commended
