NASA Filming next Friday – Christmas night – To launch the latest space telescope.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson confirmed on Friday that the James Webb Space Telescope will attempt to explode on December 24th. The European Ariane missile will provide support for French Guiana in South America.
$10 billion on the web – considered the successor to the Hubble space telescope – It was supposed to go up on Saturday, but was hit during launch preparations, which was four days late. Then a bad contact link on the rocket had to be repaired, and launch was postponed for another two days.
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US and European space authorities signed the launch date on Friday after a final round of testing.
Nelson expects a smaller crowd at the launch site due to the holiday. Take-off is scheduled for 7:20 am EDT.
In this image released by the European Space Agency on Saturday, December 11, 2021, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is mounted on top of an Ariane 5 rocket that will launch it into space from the European spaceport in French Guiana. (M.Pedoussaut / ESA via AP, file)
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“Since Christmas Eve, all the Congressional delegations that were falling down have evaporated,” he told the Associated Press. He noted that even NASA staff and contractors had dwindled. But it will be there.
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After years of flying, Webb will look back to roughly the beginning of time, when the first stars and galaxies were forming, while also examining the atmospheres of planets orbiting the stars closest to his home. NASA has partnered with European E Canadian Space agencies in the mega project.
“There’s a lot of interest in this, it just opens up all kinds of new understandings and discoveries about the universe,” Nelson said.
Is there a better birthday present than seeing a telescope launch?
“All I want for Christmas is not my front teeth, but JWST’s success,” Nelson replied, referring to the telescope in his short film.
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