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signature, infrared signature, it obviously needs to be very cold or all it s going to measure is just itself. minus j mid, mts full deployment, layer one. in space, really the only thing that will heat you up is the electronics that you ve got, and the really bright source which is the sun. that s the purpose of the sun shield. the sun shield keeps the telescope from getting all that sunlight so to stays cold. nice and slow, guys. nice and slow. it was particularly challenging the fact that we have to fold it up and deploy it once we get on orbit. stop. hold that. what happened? just lost a cable. talked to john about that? yeah. i m going to get him. we ll come back and look at layer five. yeah. let s do this. brian, are you ready? ready. are you ready? we don t have the

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