Technicians successfully deployed James Webb Telescope Giant sunshield: NASA
Washington [US], January 5 (ANI): NASA technicians have successfully fully deployed the massive sunshield protecting the James Webb Space Telescope, the US space agency announced in a statement on Tuesday (local time).
"The James Webb Space Telescope team has fully deployed the spacecraft's 70-foot sunshield, a key milestone in preparing it for science operations," the release said.
The sunshield - about the size of a ten