{"id":102957,"date":"2020-02-27T14:47:32","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T22:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/time-lapse-video-of-nasas-james-webb-space-telescope-assembly-sunshield-deployment"},"modified":"2020-02-27T14:47:32","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T22:47:32","slug":"time-lapse-video-of-nasas-james-webb-space-telescope-assembly-sunshield-deployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/time-lapse-video-of-nasas-james-webb-space-telescope-assembly-sunshield-deployment","title":{"rendered":"Time-Lapse Video of NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope Assembly, Sunshield Deployment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/Vocativ\/videos\/3347622278598146\/\" data-width=\"625\" data-allowfullscreen=\"false\" data-autoplay=\"false\"><\/div>\n<p>In 2019, NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope celebrated the full mechanical and electronic assembly of the world\u2019s largest, most powerful space science observatory ever built. Meaning that Webb\u2019s two halves have been physically put together and its wiring harnesses and electronic interfaces have been fully connected.<\/p>\n<p>Following assembly, the Webb team moved on to successfully send deployment and tensioning commands to all five layers of its sunshield, which is designed to unfold in space, and protect the observatory\u2019s mirrors and scientific instruments from light and heat, primarily from the Sun.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has been an amazing journey to get here. The James Webb Space Telescope is now one complete assembly, and known to be the most powerful space telescope ever created by humankind,\u201d said Mark Voyton, Webb Observatory Integration and Testing, and OTIS Manager at NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2019, NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope celebrated the full mechanical and electronic assembly of the world\u2019s largest, most powerful space science observatory ever built. Meaning that Webb\u2019s two halves have been physically put together and its wiring harnesses and electronic interfaces have been fully connected. Following assembly, the Webb team moved on to successfully [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}