NASA Chief Scientist Jim Green on the James Webb Space Telescope

[johnwalker]

@civilwestman

Looks like the launch will be followed by several months of breath-holding to see if everything works.

Indeed. The full deployment sequence will take 29 days (if nothing goes wrong). There are 300 single-point failure items in the process. We have had two earlier posts here about the deployment process:

• James Webb Space Telescope Deployment—“29 Days on the Edge”
• James Webb Space Telescope Deployment Sequence