Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope neared its gravitational parking space on Monday in orbit around the sun, almost 1.6 million kilometres from Earth.
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Nasa has embarked on a months-long, painstaking process of bringing its newly launched James Webb Space Telescope into focus.
If all goes according to plan, the 6.3 tonne instrument will be released from a French-built rocket after a 26-minute ride into space.
Liftoff of Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope, designed to peer further than ever into the universe, has been delayed until Christmas Day.
Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope is the most powerful space telescope ever built and a complex piece of mechanical origami that has pushed the limits of human engineering.
A sophisticated successor to Nasa’s Hubble Space Telescope won’t launch until at least May 2020 to allow for additional testing and fix production errors in a project that will require more money from the US congress