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ridgeguy
on Nov 22, 2016
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Telescope That ‘Ate Astronomy’ Is on Track to Surp...
Bringing up Webb is a six-month process after it gets on station. According to [1], in months 2 and 3 the mirror positions are adjusted to bring them into optimum optical alignment. I haven't found anything on the type of actuators used for this.
[1]
http://jwst.nasa.gov/faq.html
(in section 16)
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[1] http://jwst.nasa.gov/faq.html (in section 16)