The first communication will be with the capital city.
The craft is expected to make a noise on Christmas night.
When the first stars and galaxies formed, over 13 billion years ago, the James Webb will be able to see them.
It will check in with the capital city before entering an elliptical path around the sun. It will be like receiving an email, according to Glen Nagle.
We know where it will be. He said that they would lock on to the signal with the antenna.
It will still be close, but it will go straight out. We will follow it as it goes to about 38,000 km/h to escape.
The space craft sends a set of demands, digital ones and zeroes, and then it returns the information we need for its health. Is the solar panels deployed correctly, is it generating power, are the systems on board ok?
The team will make sure it is on the right course. After it has separated from its main rocket, they will hand over the Spain tracking station to the US, and then the US will pick it up again about 20 minutes later.
It will be 1.5m away from Earth, where it will unfold its mirrors and sun shield, and then it will be able to use what it sees to study the beginning of the universe.
Scientists from the Swinburne University of Technology will be using the telescope. The Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing will be used by Prof Karl Glazebrook. He said that it will change the study of space.
The Hubble space telescope is 100 times more powerful than the one on the Earth. AP
The telescope is up to a million times more sensitive to the wavelength of the light than a ground-based telescope, which allows us to see back to the beginning of time, to the first stars and galaxies after the big bang, and solve some of the greatest mysteries of the universe.
Dr Benjamin Pope, from the University of QUEENSLAND, will work with an international team to enhance images from the telescope.
He said that they would use hardware and new software to achieve high resolution and contrast in order to study the process of planet and star formation.
The launch of the telescope was delayed this week due to high winds, but is now set for Saturday at 11.20pm.
