JWST deployment
NASA said it would take a one-day break after extending booms for JWST’s sunshield before beginning the tensioning of that sunshield, a process expected to take at least two days to complete.

NASA is taking a one-day break in the deployment of the James Webb Space Telescope after successfully extending booms for the spacecraft’s sunshield.

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