NASA successfully completes deployment of James Webb Space Telescope

The NASA team successfully completed the deployment of 21-foot, gold-coated primary mirror panel of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) on January 08, 2022. James Webb Space Telescope has successfully deployed its sunshield — a critical feature the observatory will use to keep its instruments extra cold during the course of its mission. The unfurling of the sunshield marks the end of perhaps the most complicated deployment the observatory must pull off in order to properly function while in space.

JWST was launched on December 25, 2021 in an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana. The Webb mission will explore every phase of cosmic history, ranging from within our solar system to the most distant observable galaxies in the early universe

The JWST is developed by NASA in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). JWST is named after James E. Webb, administrator of NASA from 1961 to 1968. JWST will be a successor of Hubble Space Telescope.