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Solar Array Deployed

At approximately 30 minutes after launch, Webb’s solar array began to open up.  It is now fully deployed and we have confirmed that the spacecraft is power positive.

Author Karen FoxPosted on December 25, 2021Categories James Webb Space Telescope

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About the Webb Telescope

Webb is solving mysteries in our solar system, looking beyond to distant worlds around other stars, and probing the mysterious structures and origins of our universe and our place in it. Webb is an international program led by NASA with its partners, ESA (European Space Agency) and the Canadian Space Agency.

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