Tag: James Webb Space Telescope
The Webb Space Telescope is going into orbit around the L2 point tonight: what does that mean?
The end of 20 years of waiting and a long journey of 1.5 million kilometers in interplanetary space! The largest space telescope in the history of astronomy will orbit Lagrange…
The Webb Space Telescope Completed the Most Complex and Risky Maneuver Ever in Space
After deploying the heat shield and secondary mirror, teams from NASA and Northrop Grumman successfully opened the primary and segmented mirror of the Webb telescope. Steps performed automatically and deemed…
Operation successful: the Webb space telescope will be able to be protected from the Sun
The James Webb Space Telescope team has fully deployed the spacecraft’s sunshade in space, a key step in their preparation for science operations. Next step: the secondary mirror. The sun…
Here’s everything the Webb Space Telescope will observe for the first year
The launch of the James Webb Space Telescope is announced for this fall. Finally ! Preparations are in full swing. The project managers have just announced the list of 286…
Three days after its launch, where is the James Webb Space Telescope?
In space, the cruising speed of the James Webb Space Telescope is just over 1 km / s. Three days after its launch, it has already traveled about a third…
The Webb space telescope and the Miri instrument told by the French scientists who made it
A few days before the launch of the James-Webb, the most powerful space telescope ever built will finally fly aboard an Ariane 5 and continue the work of its predecessor,…
Event: follow the launch of the Webb space telescope with us
One of the most anticipated moments in the history of astronomy is just days away. The largest space telescope ever designed will launch on an Ariane 5 from the center…
5 things to know about the Webb Space Telescope
A few days before the launch of the James-Webb space telescope, Futura invites you to come back to five highlights or anecdotes that punctuated the design of the new ESA…
D-1: the astronomical and space event of the decade will take place on December 25!
While it was initially planned for the end of the 2000s, then threatened with abandonment in 2011, the launch of the James-Webb observatory will take place on Christmas day 2021.…
Webb, the largest space telescope ever built, told by the French scientists who made it
A few days before the launch of the James-Webb, the most powerful space telescope ever built will finally fly aboard an Ariane 5 and continue the work of its predecessor,…