The most expensive James WebB telescope (“James Webb”), launched into space on the eve, successfully performed the first adjustment of the course. This was reported in NASA.
The procedure occupied 65 minutes. It was the second effect of the apparatus in extraterrestrial space. Before the Correction “Webb” placed solar panels.
Just before the output to a given orbit, the telescope worth ten billion dollars is to adjust flight three times. It is expected that to the second point of Lagrange in the Sun-Earth system (about 1.6 million kilometers from the planet), it will arrive approximately four weeks. The beginning of the observatory is scheduled for May 2022.
In the future, James Webb should replace the Hubble orbital telescope, launched US in April 1990. The diameter of the collecting surface of the main second mirror is 2.4 meters, whereas the first one parameter reaches 6.5 meters. This makes it possible to carry out observations not only in optical, but also in the near and medium infrared bands. The main tasks of James WebB are the study of the early universe, galaxies and supermarital black holes, as well as a detailed study of exoplanet.