James Webb Space Telescope completes tricky sunshield deployment

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The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully deployed all five layers of its tennis-court-d sunshield.

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[billslugg]

This was the most risky part of the entire process, still holding my breath though. They still have to unfold the secondary mirror, the main mirror and do the alignment.