NASA technicians use a crane to lift and move the James Webb Space Telescope, with its 21-foot primary mirror deployed, inside a clean room at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, in April 2017.
Credits: NASA/Desiree Stover
NASA will hold a virtual media briefing at noon EDT Wednesday, March 16, to provide an update on the James Webb Space Telescopes mirror alignment. The briefing will air live on NASA TV, the NASA app, and the agencys website.
Participants will share progress made in aligning Webbs mirrors, resulting in a fully focused image of a single star. NASA will make imagery demonstrating the completion of this milestone available on the agencys website at 11:30 a.m., prior to the briefing.
Briefing participants include:
- Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters in Washington
- Lee Feinberg, Webb optical telescope element manager, NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland
- Marshall Perrin, Webb deputy telescope scientist, Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore
- Jane Rigby, Webb operations project scientist, Goddard
- Erin Wolf, Webb program manager, Ball Aerospace in Broomfield, Colorado
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