The already fully tested $ 10 billion (approximately $ 215 billion) next-generation telescope is the imaginary successor to the obsolete but still functional Hubble Space Telescope (Hubble). It will take off from the ESA spaceport in South American French Guiana.
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A joint project by ESA, NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) will give astronomers more insight into space history than ever before.
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When the camera reaches its final position in orbit around the Sun, about 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, and begins work, it will be the largest and most powerful telescope ever launched into space, according to The Daily Mail.
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The large mirror of the James Webb Telescope
Photo: NASA/Desiree Stover
The telescope consists of 18 hexagonal beryllium mirrors with a total diameter of 6.5 meters, the position of which can be controlled from Earth. It was named after James E. Webb, who was NASA’s director in the 1960s, at the height of the US and USSR space races.
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Hubble Telescope back in action
In this context, it should be recalled that the well-known Hubble Telescope returned to full scientific operation on July 17, and shortly afterwards took, among other things, two remarkable images of unusual galaxies. The activity of the already aging telescope was suspended for a month after the computer anomaly.
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Launched into space in 1990, Hubble has become a key tool in space exploration from its orbit 563 kilometers above the Earth’s surface. Last year, Hubble celebrated 30 years in space. During that time, his images contributed to a number of important discoveries – he made it possible to study black holes and distant galaxies, observe planets outside the solar system or star-forming processes, as well as discover previously unknown moons around the dwarf planet Pluto.
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“He wishes the Hubble Space Telescope much more success. Even when the time is approaching, and we are already counting it for months, when an even more powerful space telescope will be launched into space: the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), “Pavel Suchan from the Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic recently suggested for Novinky that by launching the James Webb telescope, he really counts.
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Previously, it was planned, for example, for March this year or the end of October, but due to the coronavirus pandemic, the event had to be postponed, several times. But it was postponed even years before the covid.
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