Mission Control was Live on 8-1-22 during the Primary Mirror Deployment James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Space Telescope scientists provide real-time updates on the observatory's penultimate step: the unfolding of the second of Webb's two primary mirror wings. Engineers in mission control will issue commands to deploy and latch the wing into position, a process that will take several hours. The deployment will complete the mirror's golden honeycomb-like structure and bring an extraordinary 14-day unfolding operation to a close.

Webb will launch from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on December 25, 2021, aboard an Ariane 5 rocket. It is the most powerful and complicated space telescope ever built, and was created in partnership with NASA partners such as the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency. The Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, is in charge of the mission.

For about the James Webb Telescope: when will cool down, calibrate its instruments, and align its 18 primary mirror segments so it can begin to #UnfoldTheUniverse.

Track Webb in space: https://go.nasa.gov/whereiswebb
Get mission updates: https://jwst.nasa.gov