Just weeks after the excitement of launch, the James Webb Space Telescope is already seeking focus in space.

The procedure began with engineers commanding 132 actuators that will move and position the primary mirror segments and the secondary mirror, just to make sure everything was responded as expected.

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The observatory team will spend about 10 days working to move the mirror segments out of their launch alignments, with more precise work continuing beyond that time.

The goal is to get all of Webb's pieces working as a single observatory in space, which will be essential for the telescope's ambitious agenda of telling us more about the early universe and the life history of various objects that are a part of it.

"These movements will take at least ten days, after which engineers can begin the three-month process of aligning the segments to perform as a single mirror."!

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