The 70-foot sunshield is critical to the James Webb Space Telescope’s operations, and unfurling it was no easy task. Its five layers, each a plastic sheet as thin as a human hair and coated with ...

To help ensure success, technicians carefully inspect the James Webb Space Telescope’s sunshield before deployment testing begins, while it is occurring, and perform a full post-test analysis to ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully deployed all five layers of its tennis-court-sized sunshield, a prerequisite for the telescope's science operations and the most nerve-wracking part ...

One of the James Webb Space Telescope's most nail-biting deployment steps is safely in the books. The $10 billion observatory unfurled its huge sunshield on Friday (Dec. 31), carefully unfolding ...

The James Webb Space Telescope, on a long and winding journey ... Sponsor Message The successful deployment of the sunshield will keep the temperature of its instruments just above absolute ...

That means a crucial part of the telescope is the massive sunshield that will protect it from the heat of the sun. Sponsor Message "The James Webb Space Telescope Sunshield is completely unique ...

Here’s how it works. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is three days into the deployment of its massive sunshield — and it still has about three days to go. The $10 billion Webb launched on ...

NASA has not finished deploying the James Webb Space Telescope yet ... successfully stretched all five layers of the telescope's sunshield. This step completed the critical process of deploying ...

NASA has released the first full-spectrum images from the James Webb Space Telescope, revealing unprecedented details of deep ...

So far, for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), everything’s cool — and getting cooler. That’s because on Jan. 4, NASA’s newest flagship observatory successfully deployed its sunshield ...

The massive sunshield protecting the James Webb Space Telescope from the Sun's heat is four days into unfurling, and should be fully deployed by the end of this week. The telescope is the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) successfully unfurled its sunshield on Friday, in another milestone for the groundbreaking project. The $10 billion observatory now resembles its full ...