When Hubble dies, we're going to learn even bigger secrets of the stars | TechRadar
http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of- ... bb-1308202

I'd no idea that was happening until now.

It's a great, straightforward article about the near future. It's brilliant how precisely planned so much of it is, so best of luck to them.

Please work perfectly first time, Webb.

Mark

A great big honking +1 to that.
Assuming the images are an accurate representation though it looks like the mirror is a composite one rather than a single big one so it should be easier to get it right as you don't perfection over such a big area in one go.

And you’d hope they have built in adjustable platforms for each of the mirrors to allow for corrections.

Certainly the article mentioned it would take about 3 months of calibration to get it functioning at its full potential so it sounds like they've learned the lesson of Hubble, especially considering that this is a one shot scenario. Must be quite nervy working on a project that cost $18billion that you'll have no chance of fixing if there's a balls up.