{"id":502,"date":"2018-02-06T13:37:13","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T12:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auditore.cab.inta-csic.es\/galaxias\/?p=502"},"modified":"2018-02-06T16:11:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T15:11:00","slug":"the-james-webb-space-telescope-jwst-passes-another-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auditore.cab.inta-csic.es\/galaxias\/the-james-webb-space-telescope-jwst-passes-another-milestone\/","title":{"rendered":"The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) passes another milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_512\" style=\"width: 1810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-512\" class=\"wp-image-512 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/auditore.cab.inta-csic.es\/galaxias\/files\/2018\/02\/sttars_lax_offload.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-512\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope is unloaded from a U.S. military C-5 Charlie aircraft at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on Feb. 2, 2018. Credits: NASA\/Chris Gunn<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The optics and scientific instrumentation (OTIS) of JWST arrived yesterday in the facilities<br \/>\nof Northrop Grumman in California, where the rest of the spacecraft (solar shields, communication elements, etc) is already. The OTIS passed the final performance tests<br \/>\nlast year at NASAS\u2019s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. The spacecraft bus<br \/>\nand solar shields still need to\u00a0perform a series of tests before the integration, however.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Over the Summer, the OTIS will be integrated with the spacecraft bus and shields to form<br \/>\nthe complete observatory. Once in its final form, JWST will undergo several environmental<br \/>\nand deployment tests, and will be shipped to French Guiana in early 2019 for launch preparations. JWST is scheduled to launch on Spring 2019 onboard an ESA\/Arianespace Ariane 5.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\"><\/div>\n<div>Full news: \u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/combined-optics-science-instruments-of-nasa-s-james-webb-space-telescope-arrive-in\">https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/combined-optics-science-instruments-of-nasa-s-james-webb-space-telescope-arrive-in<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The optics and scientific instrumentation (OTIS) of JWST arrived yesterday in the facilities of Northrop Grumman in California, where the rest of the spacecraft (solar shields, communication elements, etc) is already. The OTIS passed the final performance tests last year &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/auditore.cab.inta-csic.es\/galaxias\/the-james-webb-space-telescope-jwst-passes-another-milestone\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auditore.cab.inta-csic.es\/galaxias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auditore.cab.inta-csic.es\/galaxias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auditore.cab.inta-csic.es\/galaxias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auditore.cab.inta-csic.es\/galaxias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auditore.cab.inta-csic.es\/galaxias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/auditore.cab.inta-csic.es\/galaxias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514,"href":"http:\/\/auditore.cab.inta-csic.es\/galaxias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions\/514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auditore.cab.inta-csic.es\/galaxias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auditore.cab.inta-csic.es\/galaxias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auditore.cab.inta-csic.es\/galaxias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}