In 2019, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope celebrated the full mechanical and electronic assembly of the world’s largest, and most powerful space science observatory ever built. Meaning that Webb’s two halves have been physically put together and its wiring harnesses and electronic interfaces have been fully connected. Following assembly, the Webb team moved on to successfully send deployment and tensioning commands to all five layers of its sunshield, which is designed to unfold in space, and p

3.3K views · 376 reactions | This afternoon, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope mission operations team concluded the deployment of the first of two structures that hold within them the telescope's most unpredictable and complicated component: THE SUNSHIELD. The steps involved: https://go.nasa.gov/3mDyxFC #UnfoldTheUniverse | Space Telescope Science Institute | Facebook