James Webb Space Telescope Is Go for Launch
Webb has been confirmed as being go for launch, and the countdown clock was started! With weather reports looking favorable, the team authorized fueling of…
Webb has been confirmed as being go for launch, and the countdown clock was started! With weather reports looking favorable, the team authorized fueling of…
A “game changing” new telescope will be blasted into space tonight to embark on a lonely 1.5-million-kilometer orbit around the Sun to provide a clearer…
Webb has been installed onto the Ariane 5 rocket in preparation for launch at 7:20 a.m. Eastern time on Saturday, December 25, 2021. We asked…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope – inside the Ariane 5 rocket it will ride to space – has arrived at its final location on Earth:…
Arianespace’s Ariane 5 rocket with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope onboard, is rolled out to the launch pad, Thursday, December 23, 2021, at Europe’s Spaceport,…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has begun its stately rollout to the Arianespace ELA-3 launch complex at Europe’s Spaceport located near Kourou, French Guiana. Arianespace…
ESA and NASA will be broadcasting live as the James Webb Space Telescope is launched to space on ESA’s Ariane 5 from Europe’s Spaceport in…
NASA and Arianespace successfully completed the Launch Readiness Review for the James Webb Space Telescope on December 21. The team authorized the rollout of the…
We don’t yet know what the James Webb Space Telescope will uncover. Will we get answers? Will we have more questions? One thing’s certain: The…
On December 17 the Ariane 5 rocket fairing was closed around the James Webb Space Telescope. This protective fairing, or ‘nose cone’, will shield the…
The James Webb Space Telescope is confirmed for the target launch date of December 24, at 7:20 a.m. EST. Late on December 17, teams at…
Before the MIRI instrument – one of four scientific instruments aboard the observatory – can operate, it has to be cooled down to almost the…
The world’s next generation cosmic observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope, is due for launch on an Ariane 5 from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana….
The James Webb Space Telescope team is working on a communication issue between the observatory and the launch vehicle system. This will delay the launch…
On Saturday, December 11, the James Webb Space Telescope was placed on top of the Ariane 5 rocket that will launch it to space from…
The James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) is designed to answer fundamental questions about the Universe. With 100 times more sensitivity than the NASA/ESA Hubble Space…
In preparation for launch later this month, ground teams have successfully completed the delicate operation of loading the James Webb Space Telescope with the propellant…
Researchers will examine three active supermassive black holes – known as quasars – their host galaxies, and their neighborhoods to better detail these distant objects…