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Also, NASA said today that over about the next two weeks, they will provide broadcast coverage, media briefings, and other updates on major deployment milestones. Broadcasts of milestone events will air live on NASA TV, the NASA app, and the agency’sAs of today , the Where’s Webb site reports how the telescope’s momentum flap deployed shortly after 9am EST . This flap will help counteract forces from the solar wind on the telescope’s gigantic sunshield, helping to conserve propellant.
Photons of sunlight hitting the sunshield surface exert pressure on the sunshield. The aft momentum flap uses the pressure of these photons to balance the sunshield and keep Webb steady.
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