James Webb Telescope Launch Info 2021. Webb will solve mysteries in our solar system look beyond to distant worlds around other stars and probe the mysterious structures and origins of our universe and our place in it. Bill IngallsNASAReuters NASAs.
The Ariane 5 is one of the worlds most reliable launch vehicles capable of delivering Webb to its destination in space. Dangerously high winds in the region mean the telescope will have to be on Earth for another day and the launch is now scheduled for Christmas. The James Webb Space Telescope is scheduled to launch at 720 am.
NASA has confirmed plans to launch the James Webb Space Telescope into orbit on December 18 2021.
Webb which is touted as the US space agencys next great space observatory was first targeted. The James Webb Space Telescope NASAs premier observatory of the next decade successfully launched to space Saturday morning. The James Webb Space Telescope will be mounted on an Ariane 5 rocket that will launch from Europes Spaceport in French Guiana. The telescope is so big that it has to be folded origami-style to.