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For some context around what makes this deployment so remarkable, watch this[0] video that talks about the engineering/building aspects of the James Webb [0] ht

• ArmandGrillet 5y ago
  Thanks for the link. I am interested in knowing more about the organization behind that project: how many people took care of the deployment, how are they organized, how has quality control been done. https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-12-25/james-webb-space-telescope-hubble-successor-christmas-day-launch https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-12-25/james-webb... gives some info but not an in-depth view of how things work at the NASA.
  • pkaye 5y ago
    A couple of interesting links I've found so far on the technology of the telescope. https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/observatory/ote/mirrors/index.html#1c https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/observatory/ote/mirrors/in... https://www.stsci.edu/~idash/pub/dashevsky0607rcsgso.pdf https://www.stsci.edu/~idash/pub/dashevsky0607rcsgso.pdf https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20080030196/downloads/20080030196.pdf https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20080030196/downloads/20...
• jonahbenton 5y ago
  Thank you, this is great, have been looking unsuccessfully for technical content like this.