A new cosmic dawn: peering across the universe with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
Physics World
JANUARY 7, 2022
Yet even once the payload was hurled skyward atop a column of fire aboard an Ariane 5 rocket, mission scientists did not immediately exhale in relief. Constructing a mirror that size isn’t a problem per se , but it is an issue to fit it inside an Ariane 5 rocket that is just 4.57 m primary mirror. And then there’s the sunshield.
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