James Webb Space Telescope: First Three Layers of Solar Shield Deployed, Final Two to Be Stretched Today

NASA engineers have begun a crucial phase in deploying the James Webb Space Telescope. The engineers have started to tighten the tension in its tennis court-sized sunshield. The stretching of the first three layers of the five-layer sunshield was successful and the final two layers will be deployed today, January 4

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