NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Clears Critical Sunshield Deployment Testing

  • Released Tuesday, November 19, 2019
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The Webb Telescope's sunshield is deployed and tensioned in the Northrop Grumman cleanroom. This is a social media release.

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The sunshield for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has passed a test critical to preparing the observatory for its 2021 launch. Technicians and engineers fully deployed and tensioned each of the sunshield's five layers, successfully putting the sunshield into the same position it will be in a million miles from Earth.

The Webb Telescope's sunshield is deployed and tensioned in the Northrop Grumman cleanroom. Social media release without text graphics.

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See https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/nasa-s-james-webb-space-telescope-clears-critical-sunshield-deployment-testing

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