Because of its huge size, which prevents it from being placed inside a rocket, the telescope folded itself into an origami art and had to be deployed in space, in a very dangerous mission. One of the most difficult steps in this mission was the deployment of the heat shield.
وبقي The most powerful telescope At all in the history of space exploration, astronomers from the whole world have been waiting for 30 years to observe the universe with unprecedented capabilities, especially the first galaxies that were formed a few hundred million years ago following the Big Bang.
The telescope was launched more than a week ago from French Guiana, and is currently more than 900,000 kilometers from Earth. It is still on its way to reaching its final orbit at a distance of 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, four times the distance between our planet and the Moon.
It is impossible to carry out any repair in case of any technical problem in this dimension.
So the controlled deployment from Baltimore to the US East Coast must be carried out without error.
More than 100 engineers are currently rotating around the clock to ensure that everything goes according to plan.
Timelessness US space agency (NASA), Tuesday, the event live on the Internet.
Because there was no device on board that might take pictures of the observatory itself, the only available pictures were taken from the operations control room, where the teams responsible for following up on the deployment of the heat shield applauded for a long time following the announcement of the successful tightening of the fifth layer.
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consist telescope It consists of 5 layers, each the size of a tennis court, whose mission is to protect scientific instruments from The intense heat of the sun. They have been neatly stretched before being fully tightened one by one since the two of them.
Because of its huge size, which prevents it from being placed inside a rocket, the telescope folded itself into an origami art and had to be deployed in space, in a very dangerous mission. One of the most difficult stations in this mission was the deployment of the heat shield.
وبقي The most powerful telescope At all in the history of space exploration, astronomers from the whole world have been waiting for 30 years to observe the universe with unprecedented capabilities, especially the first galaxies that were formed a few hundred million years ago following the Big Bang.
The telescope was launched more than a week ago from French Guiana, and is currently more than 900,000 kilometers from Earth. It is still on its way to reaching its final orbit at a distance of 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, four times the distance between our planet and the Moon.
It is impossible to carry out any repair in case of any technical problem in this dimension.
So the controlled deployment from Baltimore to the US East Coast must be carried out without error.
More than 100 engineers are currently rotating around the clock to ensure that everything goes according to plan.
Timelessness US space agency (NASA), Tuesday, the event live on the Internet.
Because there was no device on board that might take pictures of the observatory itself, the only available pictures were taken from the operations control room, where the teams responsible for following up on the deployment of the heat shield applauded for a long time following the announcement of the successful tightening of the fifth layer.
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