6.3K views · 196 reactions | NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is the most complex and powerful space telescope ever built – and since it will operate 1.5 million kilometres away from Earth, every component has to be just right! Check out Canada’s role in this marvel of engineering and astronomy: https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/jwst/canada-role.asp. Video: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | Canadian Space Agency | Facebook

3.3K views · 376 reactions | This afternoon, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope mission operations team concluded the deployment of the first of two structures that hold within them the telescope's most unpredictable and complicated component: THE SUNSHIELD. The steps involved: https://go.nasa.gov/3mDyxFC #UnfoldTheUniverse | Space Telescope Science Institute | Facebook