James Webb Space Telescope - Sunshield Deployment


Scheduled to launch in June 2014, the James Webb Space Telescope is NASA's next orbiting observatory and the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. A tennis court-sized telescope orbiting far beyond Earth's moon, Webb will detect infrared radiation and be capable of seeing in that wavelength as well as Hubble sees in visible light.This April 2009 animation shows the entire deployment sequence of the telescope's sunshield and the mirror.

Credit: Northrop Grumman






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