James Webb Space Telescope LIVE: A Milestone! Sunshield Successfully Deploys
“Keep in mind that while the launch was successful, JWST is still on its long way to its final destination at the 2nd Lagrange point,” observes Avi Shporer, dailygalaxy.com editor and astrophysicist at the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, formerly a NASA Sagan Fellow at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “Moreover,’ he notes, “the telescope was tightly folded and packed inside the launch vehicle, and during the next few weeks it will have many unfolding steps, each of which is a single point of failure."