Webb Telescope Wing Deployment (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Webb Telescope Wing Deployment

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Engineers successfully completed two deployments for the James Webb Space Telescope's "wings" or side portions of the backplane structure that fold up.

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