James Webb Space Telescope Deployment Sequence

James Webb Space Telescope Deployment Sequence

Engineers on the ground will remotely orchestrate a complex sequence of deployments in the hours and days immediately after the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope. This animation shows the nominal sequence for these deployments. Music Credit: Universal Production Music "Connecting Ideas Instrumental" Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Michael McClare (KBRwyle): Lead Producer Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET): Technical Support Adriana Manrique Gutierrez (KBRwyle): Lead Animator Download video: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14016 View more deployment animation clips: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20339

James Webb Space Telescope over Earth There's a big new telescope in space. This one, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), not only has a mirror over five times larger than Hubble's in area, but can see better in infrared light. The featured picture shows JWST high above the Earth just after being released by the upper stage of an Ariane V rocket, launched yesterday from French Guiana. Over the next month, JWST will move out near the < a href="https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/754/what-is-a-lagrange-point/">Sun-Earth L2 point where it will co-orbit the Sun with the Earth. During this time and for the next five months, JWST will unravel its segmented mirror and an array of sophisticated scientific instruments -- and test them. If all goes well, JWST will start examining galaxies across the universe and planets orbiting stars across our Milky Way Galaxy in the summer of 2022. December 26, 2021 via NASA https://ift.tt/3qsVlZC