NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully integrated the mission’s deployable aperture cover—a visor-like sunshade that will help prevent unwanted light from entering the telescope—to the outer barrel assembly, another structure designed to shield the telescope from stray light in addition to keeping it at a stable temperature. NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully integrated the mission’s deployable aperture cover—a visor-like sunshade that will help prevent unwanted light from entering the telescope—to the outer barrel assembly, another structure designed to shield the telescope from stray light in addition to keeping it at a stable temperature. Space Exploration Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories
NASA successfully joins sunshade to Roman Observatory’s ‘exoskeleton’
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