NG completes tests on Webb Telescope sunshield
Northrop Grumman has completed a long series of tests to prove that the James Webb Space Telescope's five-layer sunshield will be able to protect the observatory's sensitive cryogenic instruments from solar heat. The 26 exacting tests took place all over the U.S. during a seven-year period starting...
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