If all goes well, the space telescope will launch in December.
But then it has to go through an incredibly complex deployment that will take a full two weeks.
All of which it will be doing on its own while everyone on Earth...let's just say I don't think they'll be needing their nail clippers.
They do have some options. For example, they have a command to make the observatory shimmy to potentially unstick something.
Which is just...going to be the worst for them. And then we still have to wait about 180 days to actually start doing science.
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