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NASA's new $10 billion observatory is in the final stages of being configured and located.
The deployment process for the James Webb Space Telescope began when the telescope was launched on Saturday. The observatory unfurled its solar array and adjusted its trajectory. The steps to open its sun shield and arrange its mirrors are still to come.
The observatory can be tracked at the NASA website. The website has information about the spacecraft's location and speed.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope mission is live.
The Christmas launch of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
A still image from a video showing the deployment of a telescope. The NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center has a conceptual image lab.
Just a few days into its journey, Webb has already circled a point known as L2, or the Earth-sun lagrange point 2, which is more than one-third of the way to its final destination. The environment here is relatively stable because of the fact that the sun and Earth are on opposite sides.
The dashboard will provide temperatures for both the hot and cold side of the spaceship, which will be protected by the massive sun shield.
The main dashboard has information from NASA's main deployment timeline as well as details about the most recent deployment stage.
The telescope will be fully deployed 13 days after launch, and will reach its final altitude 29.5 days later. The observatory will have five months of work to prepare its instruments and mirror for science work, which is expected to begin in the summer of 2022.
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