NASA's Webb Telescope Packs Its Sunshield for a Million Mile Trip
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...
Source: freerepublic.com