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By Garth Meyer After 19 years of design and construction at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, the Webb Space Telescope sunshields unfolded in space…

NASA’s Webb Telescope Packs Its Sunshield for a Million Mile Trip Posted on NASA’s Webb Telescope Packs Its Sunshield for a Million Mile Trip Engineers working on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have successfully folded and packed its sunshield for its upcoming million-mile (roughly 1.5 million kilometer) journey, which begins later this year. The sunshield — a five-layer, diamond-shaped structure the size of a tennis court — was specially engineered to fold up around the two sides of the telescope and fit within the confines of its launch vehicle, the Ariane 5 rocket. Now that f...

NASA Installs a Heat Shield the Size of a Tennis Court to Its Latest Telescope On 4/7/21 at 12:49 PM EDT Engineers have packed a huge heat shield onto the James Webb Telescope to prepare it for its launch later this year. Like the Hubble Space Telescope, Webb will be placed in space so that it can take photos of the cosmos without having to peer through the Earth's atmosphere first. But while Hubble orbits the Earth at a distance of around 347 miles, Webb will orbit our sun, and be around a million miles away from us. Read more It will need a heat shield to protect it from the glare of our ne...