At around 8:15 pm on December 25, 2021, the world's most powerful space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, was successfully launched from the Kuru Base in French Guiana aboard the Ariana 5 rocket
On January 7, 2022, NASA engineers began the deployment process of the Weber primary mirror. The main mirror of the Weber telescope has a diameter of 6.5 meters, which is 2.7 times that of Hubble. It consists of 18 hexagonal units, mainly made of beryllium, and covered with a thin layer of gold on the surface. Although the main mirror weighs 6.5 tons and is lighter than Hubble, its reflection area is 6 times that of the latter. In terms of performance and accuracy, NASA claims that Webb can detect celestial bodies that are 10-100 times weaker than Hubble's recognition limit, and can clearly identify a coin 40 kilometers away.
It is reported that the total cost of this project exceeds 11.3 billion US dollars. The largest space observation station in human history will start launching various precision mechanisms, including 140 release mechanisms, 70 hinge components, 400 pulleys, 90 cables, and 8 deployment motors, MIRI detectors, and its four infrared instruments, at a distance of approximately 1.5 million kilometers from Earth.
No one would have imagined that this crystallization of human science, located about a million kilometers above the ground, would have a slight connection with the unknown C-LASER on the ground. The four infrared camera lens materials of the James Weber Space Telescope installation are top-notch calcium fluoride (CAF2) provided by the German veteran infrared substrate giant HELLMA. As an important strategic partner of HELLMA in the Asia Pacific region, C-LASER has always been engaged in extensive and in-depth cooperation with HELLMA, while also shouldering the initial rough processing tasks of incoming OEM and ODM cutting and forming of HELLMA infrared materials (including CAF2, BAF2, ZNSE, ZNS, etc.). HELLMA has been focusing on the research and development of materials for its core infrared mirror throughout the entire operation of the James Weber Space Telescope project. Just as Weber took off to expand its wings, HELLMA experts immediately sent C-LASER photos of the project, meaning, "Look, our materials are here!"!
According to NASA, the James Webb Space Telescope has an equally massive mission: to collect infrared light from distant corners of the universe, enabling scientists to explore the structure and origin of our universe, as well as our position within it.
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