![The sunshield on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, shown here stacked and expanded in a cleanroom in the Northrop Grumman facility in Redondo Beach, California, will be folded up during launch and deploy in space. Credit: NASA](https://appel.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/JWST-Sun-Shield-670x380.png)
Webb’s Deployments Most Complex Ever Attempted
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Observatory will unfold massive sunshield, mirror in space.
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