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Early 2019: planned launch date as of October 2017. [41] May 2020 or later: planned launch date as of March 2018. [42] 30 March 2021: planned launch date as of June 2018. [33] 31 October 2021: planned launch date as of July 2020. [34] November 2021 or later: planned launch date as of June 2021. [35] 22 December 2021: planned launch date as of ...
Launch was at that time planned for 2007, but the launch date was pushed back many times (see table further down). In 2002, the project was renamed after NASA's second administrator (1961–1968), James E. Webb (1906–1992). [92] Webb led the agency during the Apollo program and established scientific research as a core NASA activity. [93]
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a space telescope designed primarily to conduct infrared astronomy. Its complex launch and commissioning process lasted from late 2021 until mid-2022. The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) led JWST's development in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA) and the ...
NASA's biggest space telescope has faced about a decade of delays and budget cuts. It finally screamed past Earth's atmosphere on Saturday.
The most powerful telescope to go into space was successfully launched on Christmas Day. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was on an Ariane 5 rocket when it left the Kourou spaceport in French ...
This image released by NASA on Tuesday, July 12, 2022, combined the capabilities of the James Webb Space Telescope's two cameras to create a never-before-seen view of a star-forming region in the ...
Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine is an episode of the four-episode 2023 Netflix documentary series Unknown, about NASA's development and launch of the James Webb Space Telescope. [1] The episode follows the development of the telescope from the 1990s through its 2021 launch and 2022 deployment, and the unveiling of some of the first images from the ...
In this April 13, 2017 photo provided by NASA, technicians lift the mirror of the James Webb Space Telescope using a crane at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. (Laura Betz/NASA via ...