NASA has confirmed the success of the first two steps in deploying the enormous sunshield of the James Webb Space Telescope.
Three-and-a-half days into its mission and around 320,000 miles from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope is now gradually opening up from the compact shape that enabled the enormous apparatus to fit inside the rocket’s fairing on launch day.
The good news is that first two stages of the sunshield’s deployment have been declared a success. They took place on Tuesday and involved unfolding the forward and aft sunshield pallet that will hold the sunshield’s five layers once it’s fully deployed.
The additional processes included monitoring structural temperatures, positioning the observatory in a way for the sun to provide optimal temperatures, activating heaters to warm key components, setting off release mechanisms, configuring electronics and software, and finally, latching the pallets into position.
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