The latest news about James Webb Space Telescope is that it has been successfully transferred to and unpacked in Europe’s Kourou spaceport in French Guiana, where it is now being prepared for launch on 18 December 2021.
According to the BBC and The Atlantic, James Webb Space Telescope is on Schedule to launch on 18 December 2021. This space telescope is the most advanced telescope ever built. As an NGST, Next Generation Space Telescope, it is an ambitious observatory designed to peer at the most distant galaxies in the universe.
This Telescope, James Webb Space Telescope, as an NGST – Next Generation Space Telescope, is the largest and most advanced telescope ever built.
All things being equal, it will be launched, as scheduled, on December 18.
Who is James Webb?
James E. Webb ran NASA from February 1961 to October 1968. He believed that NASA had to strike a balance between human space flight and science. This man whose name NASA has chosen to bestow upon the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope is most commonly linked to the Apollo moon program, not to science. It is the belief of many that, as head of NASA from 1961 to 1968, he did more for science than perhaps any other government official. therefore, it is only fitting that the NGST – Next Generation Space Telescope would be named after him.
James Webb Space Telescope has cost 10 billion dollars to build, and it is to be the successor to the Hubble space observatory
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