1 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:05,100 (Music) 2 00:00:05,100 --> 00:00:08,000 Engineers building The James Webb Space Telescope 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:16,400 recently deployed the revolutionary sunshield. 4 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:17,300 The sunshield consists of five layers of a polymer 5 00:00:17,300 --> 00:00:24,400 material called KAPTON. 6 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:25,500 The critical sunshield keeps telescope instruments in deep shadow 7 00:00:25,500 --> 00:00:27,000 and deep cold, approximately 8 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:37,700 394 degrees Fahrenheit below zero. 9 00:00:37,700 --> 00:00:39,100 Next for Webb: comprehensive 10 00:00:39,100 --> 00:00:41,100 electrical tests and one more set of mechanical tests 11 00:00:41,100 --> 00:00:51,000 to emulate launch vibration. 12 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:53,600 EXPLORE: Solar system and beyond. 13 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:56,427 NASA