{"id":133429,"date":"2022-01-01T04:25:29","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T12:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/still-nervous-about-jwst-friday-and-saturdays-sunshield-deployments-will-be-nail-biters"},"modified":"2022-01-01T04:25:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-01T12:25:29","slug":"still-nervous-about-jwst-friday-and-saturdays-sunshield-deployments-will-be-nail-biters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/still-nervous-about-jwst-friday-and-saturdays-sunshield-deployments-will-be-nail-biters","title":{"rendered":"Still Nervous about JWST? Friday and Saturday\u2019s Sunshield Deployments will be Nail-biters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RzGLKQ7_KZQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Every part of the James Webb Space Telescope\u2019s (JWST\u2019s) deployment is nerve-wracking, but some of the most nail-biting moments will happen on New Year\u2019s Eve and New Year\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re on Day 5 of the<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/152863\/jwsts-30-days-of-terror\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Webb Telescope\u2019s 30 Days of Terror<\/a>, and so far, the observatory\u2019s engineering team has successfully checked off all the boxes on its to-do list (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aura-astronomy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Webb-to-L2-Checklist-12-19-21.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">get your own check-off list here.)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But starting on December 31 comes the task that is among the most worrisome: unfolding the giant sunshield. The enormous sunshield is about 70 by 47 feet (21 by 14 meters) when deployed, or approximately the size of a tennis court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every part of the James Webb Space Telescope\u2019s (JWST\u2019s) deployment is nerve-wracking, but some of the most nail-biting moments will happen on New Year\u2019s Eve and New Year\u2019s Day. We\u2019re on Day 5 of the Webb Telescope\u2019s 30 Days of Terror, and so far, the observatory\u2019s engineering team has successfully checked off all the boxes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133429","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=133429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}