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Do not get too excited for such a list though because I think around 180 of them were just bolts, locks or actuators securing the movable parts of the primary m
by _Microft 5y ago
Do not get too excited for such a list though because I think around 180 of them were just bolts, locks or actuators securing the movable parts of the primary mirror.
- guenthert 5y agoJust? It's my understanding that each of those could have failed to deploy and if any of those would have, it were the end of the JWST. No way to repair or salvage. No 30% mission targets achieved or "underperforming" (as e.g. Hubble before the mirror correction, i.e. with approximated correction done in software on the ground). Nothing of value, just a flying, very expensive, brick.