How big is the James Webb sunshield?
21 m long · 68.9 ft
Webb’s sunshield is about 21 meters long — tennis-court sized.
City bus 12 m
James Webb sunshield 21 m
Compared with things you know
- The James Webb sunshield is about 10× the height of a door Door: 2.03 m
- The James Webb sunshield is about 4.7× the length of a family car Family car: 4.5 m
- The James Webb sunshield is about 3.8× the height of a giraffe Giraffe: 5.5 m
- The James Webb sunshield is about 1.8× the length of a city bus City bus: 12 m
Think you could size it by eye? The James Webb sunshield is one of the objects in Sizedle.
Similar space
- Chelyabinsk meteor 19 m across 62.3 ft
- Hubble Space Telescope 13.2 m long 43.3 ft
- Space Shuttle orbiter 37.2 m long 122 ft
- Apollo Lunar Module 7 m tall 23 ft
- Falcon 9 rocket 70 m tall 230 ft
- International Space Station 109 m wide 358 ft