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The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully completed deploying both pallet structures of its sunshield, notching another milestone in the five-day-long process of unfurling the massive sunshield.
Octagrabber is the hero of this mission although the Merlin engines may disagree. The cores on the legs are spent and the engine bells are wedged in. The booster slide was stopped by the port edge of JRTI near the garage. They fought hard to keep this one standing.
NASA has just confirmed that the fifth and final layer of the James Webb Space Telescope's heat shield has been successfully tensioned, marking the end of the sunshield deployment work that began last week."This is an historic day," NASA scientist Michelle Thaller said during a live webcast. "The first major phase of the deployment of the sunshield has been compete."Our wrap story on the event will be posted shortly.
https://www.space.com/news/live/james-webb-space-telescope-updates
The secondary mirror of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is now securely latched into place, marking a successful end to today's deployment step. NASA's webcast has ended. You can read our full story by senior writer Tereza Pultarova here.
Falcon 9 is launching 49 Starlink internet satellites. Liftoff is scheduled for 4:49 p.m. Eastern (21:49 UTC) from LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida.