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James Webb Space Telescope unfolds its tennis-court-sized sunshield

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NASA’s next-generation telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, unfolded its sunshield in a series of tensioning tests in preparation for launch next year.

Read the full article: https://www.digitaltrends.com/news/james-webb-telescope-sunshield-unfurl-test//

This article originally appeared on Digital Trends on 2020-12-19T16:17:03.000Z and was written by Georgina Torbet.

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