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NASA’s Webb Telescope Packs Its Sunshield for a Million Mile Trip
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NASA’s Webb Telescope Packs Its Sunshield for a Million Mile Trip
Engineers working on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have successfully folded and packed its sunshield for its upcoming million-mile (roughly 1.5 million kilometer) journey, which begins later this year.
The sunshield a five-layer, diamond-shaped structure the size of a tennis court was specially engineered to fold up around the two sides of the telescope and fit within the confines of its launch vehicle, the Ariane 5 rocket. Now that folding has been completed at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, California, the sunshield will remain in this compact form through launch and the first few days the observatory will spend in space. ....

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