This was interesting in the linked article, a real Rube Goldberg contraption:
The sunshield structure alone has 140 release mechanisms, 70 hinge assemblies, 400 pulleys, 90 cables and eight deployment motors
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The Webb Telesopce has found its first target, a star HD84406 in the constellation of Ursa Major. Alignment and focusing is on the way. Waiting with fingers crossed
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Thanks! Keep us posted. 
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It’s getting there:
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“The resulting image shows that the team has moved each of Webb’s 18 primary mirror segments to bring 18 unfocused copies of a single star into a planned hexagonal formation,” NASA officials wrote in a blog post Friday (Feb. 18)
Properly aligning the mirrors is a main goal of Webb’s commissioning, which is expected to conclude in the summer.
James Webb Space Telescope is a proof of technology advance, the leap that we had for the last decade. And the clarity of each step that is displayed in the news also proves the maturity of today’s technology.
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