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Extraction & Deployment
These videos show the James Webb Space Telescope extracting, deploying, and unfolding.
Images of the satellite deploying.
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September 2010 animation showing the deployment sequence of the sunshield and the mirror. This feature is longer than the one below.
Credit: NASA/Northrop Grumman
Length: 1 minute, 40 seconds
Formats:Quicktime: 60.2 MB .mov, 18.1 MB .m4v, 59.7 MB .wmv, and YouTube |
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September 2010 animation showing the deployment sequence of the sunshield and the mirror. This feature is short and the deployment is speeded up.
Credit: NASA/Northrop Grumman
Length: 29 seconds
Formats:Quicktime: 18.2 MB .mov, 18 MB .m4v, 18.4 MB .wmv, and YouTube |
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April 2009 animation showing entire deployment sequence of the sunshield and the mirror.
Credit: Northrop Grumman
Length: 1 minute
Formats:Quicktime: 14.7 MB .mov, 29.9 MB .mov |
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April 2009 animation showing entire deployment sequence of the sunshield and the mirror. This is a longer version of the video above with more detail and several closeups.
Credit: Northrop Grumman
Length: 3 minutes 36 seconds
Formats:Quicktime: 52.7 MB .mov, 53 MB .mov,
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March 2009 animation of JWST deploying its sunshield and its mirrors. This video includes several additional or alternative animation clips of key deployment actions.
Credit: Northrop Grumman
Length: 4 minutes 54 seconds
Formats: Windows Media Video: 29.2 MB .wmv
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An older animation showing how the spacecraft will fold to fit into the rocket it will be launched by.
Credit: Northrop Grumman
Length: 2 minutes
Formats: Quicktime: 26.9 MB .mov
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Another older animation shows JWST deploying its sunshield and its mirrors, as well as how JWST will sit at the L2 Lagrange point.
Credit: Northrop Grumman
Length: 2 minutes 23 seconds
Formats: Mpeg: 56.4 MB .mpg |
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