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9 January 2022 at 3:06 pm
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Robin Leadbeater
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Phew! Now lets hope all the 126 actuators which align the mirror segments work ok. The number of moving parts in the instruments is mind boggling too. NIRSpec apparently has a matrix of a quarter of a million focal plane “microshutters”