BBCNEWS BBC News January 8, 2022 19:27:00
In space. can you explain, why can't the mirror havejust in space. can you explain, why can't the mirror have just gone up open? there is one very big problem that it has a 6.5 wide metre mirror and a rocket is about three metres wide. we cannot fit something that big inside a tiny rocket. they had to do some creative origami and fold it up and put it inside this rocket. it also had this absolutely massive sun shield. so this was five layers of foil. each layer is the size of a tennis court. there is no way you could fit that in a rocket so they had to full do it all up and send it into space ...
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