The Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana has a Payload preparation facility for the James Webb Space Telescope.
The launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, which is supposed to herald a new era of discovery, has been delayed until December 22 after an accident at its launch facility in French Guiana, NASA said Monday.
The $10 billion observatory was going to be attached to a launch vehicle adapter to fix it to the upper stage of an Ariane 5 rocket.
The US space agency said in a post that the incident occurred while operations were taking place "under Arianespace overall responsibility."
Arianespace is contracted to launch the telescope.
The incident did not damage any components, and a NASA-led team is investigating how it happened.
The space telescope was supposed to launch on December 18 but has been delayed for a few days.
Researchers want to use the largest and most powerful telescope ever built to look back in time to when the first stars and galaxies formed, a few hundred million years after the Big bang.
As a result of the universe's expansion, the light from the first objects reaches the red end of the spectrum, which makes it possible for it to detect IR.
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The space telescope launch was delayed after a site incident.
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