NASA is providing live coverage of the final tensioning of the sunshield on the James Webb Space Telescope beginning at 9:30 a.m. EST (1430 GMT) Tuesday. Three layers of the five-membrane sunshade were pulled tight into their final configuration Monday. The final two layers are being tensioned Tuesday.

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