NASA and the company overseeing the launch confirmed on Saturday that the launch will go ahead on December 24.
The instrument, which will be the largest and most powerful telescope ever to be launched into space, was supposed to be deployed in the early 2000s.
The James Webb Space Telescope is encapsulated inside a Ariane5 rocket and will be launched on December 24.
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December 18, 2021.
The telescope's original budget was ballooned to nearly US$10 billion due to multiple problems.
The telescope was built in the US and will leave for French Guyana on December 18.
Two delays have been caused by new problems.
The team has fixed the connection issue and is in the middle of its final scheduled aliveness test before launch. We will provide an update on the status of the project tomorrow.
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Thomas Zurbuchen wrote about his December 16th post.
Arianespace said on its website that it would go ahead with the launch on December 24.
NASA confirmed that the telescope was encapsulated inside the Ariane5 rocket fairing.
Final operations are ongoing. Need more time to finish them. December 24 is the target launch date. Confirmation Saturday.
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Go to NASA/@ESA! Go for it! Go! #WebbFliesAriane
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Stéphane Isral is on thearianespaceceo.
The telescope will be far away from the sun, like the Hubble telescope. It is hoped that it will reveal what the Universe looked like when it was a single billion years old.
The telescope is named after the man who ran NASA for much of the 1960s.
Agence France-Presse.
