{"id":133485,"date":"2022-01-02T20:23:35","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T04:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/james-webb-is-about-to-stretch-out-its-sunshield"},"modified":"2022-01-02T20:23:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T04:23:35","slug":"james-webb-is-about-to-stretch-out-its-sunshield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/james-webb-is-about-to-stretch-out-its-sunshield","title":{"rendered":"James Webb Is About to Stretch Out Its Sunshield"},"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\/7nT7JGZMbtM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Indeed, nothing like this has ever been attempted in space before ensuring that we hold our breaths each time the JWTS embarks on the next steps of its six-month journey to fully transform into its final configuration and begin its science mission. Now, NASA is reporting that the telescope just successfully completed another step in its impressive transformation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the successful extension of Webb\u2019s second sunshield mid-boom, the observatory has passed another critical deployment milestone. Webb\u2019s sunshield now resembles its full, kite-shaped form in space,\u201d said NASA in <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nasa.gov\/webb\/2021\/12\/31\/with-webbs-mid-booms-extended-sunshield-takes-shape\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indeed, nothing like this has ever been attempted in space before ensuring that we hold our breaths each time the JWTS embarks on the next steps of its six-month journey to fully transform into its final configuration and begin its science mission. Now, NASA is reporting that the telescope just successfully completed another step in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133485","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}