Nope, this isn't how NASA gets ready to roast a chicken. In fact, this image shows its engineers testing the sunshield for the NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. The size of a tennis court, it folds up like an umbrella-so has to be tested extensively to make sure the five layers of thin membrane can unfurl reliably in space. [ NASA]
Entities 0 Name: NASA Count: 3 1 Name: James Webb Space Telescope Count: 1 Related 0 Url: http://ift.tt/1nsMXnQ Title: James Webb Space Telescope's Giant Sunshield Test Unit Unfurled First Time Description: GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, MD - The huge Sunshield test unit for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been successfully unfurled for the first time in a key milestone ahead of the launch scheduled for October 2018. Engineers stacked and expanded the tennis-court sized Sunshield test unit last week inside the cleanroom at a...
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