It's been a while, hasn't it?
I suppose the big news as of late is the James Webb telescope, which has finally stopped being a punchline and is actually out in space, heading toward its final position a million miles from Earth, off at the Earth-Sun Lagrange Point 2. As of January 6, it's deployed its radiator and its secondary mirrors. It won't be fully cooled off until summer, but the deployment process has gone well thus far. And it has to, considering that nothing can go wrong. It's not like Hubble, there's no fixing the mirror if it's misaligned. In that regard, it's probably a good thing they took so long to launch it. Still, I can't imagine anyone on that project has done much sleeping in the past couple weeks. I know I'd be struggling.
Oh, and don't worry, we'll be right back to our regularly scheduled golf and beer programming.
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