The Launch of the James Webb Space Telescope

On December 25, 2021, and 7:20 AM ET (12:20 UTC), the James Webb Space Telescope was launched by an ArianeSpace Ariane 5 rocket from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. The rocket and launch site were part of the European Space Agency's contribution to the mission.

This clip is from the NASA launch broadcast.

Video credit: NASA

[amit]

"To the edge of time itself", ah that gave me goosebumps live

[mfxmrpf]

"From a tropical rainforest to the edge of time itself" those announcers really have a way with their words! I wonder if he came up with this part ad lib...

[linkin]

“From a tropical rainforest to the edge of time itself “ 🥰🥰🥰🥰

[EricRShelton]

I was bummed the cloud cover obscured the launch so quickly but was really happy with the animations and other models shown on screen when we watched it live! The interior camera lighting up so bright when the capsule shell separated was one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. I check for updates several times a day. Thank you for this!

[Juan-M-]

I don't know if the same thing happened to someone else, but I cried watching the Ariane 5 take off carrying James Webb

[tsiffpyc]

I just love this telescope and can’t wait to see what it will discover!

[chegeny]

Congratulations JWST team! You're off to Great Places. 🚀

[seanseo_]

An HISTORY MAKING ! after a years of builds and delayed, now it's going toward lagrange point, windowing and finding remnants of bigbang! Congrats team! NASA USA, canada, europe !

[VeronicaGorositoMusic]

Beautiful launch! Made me cry it finally happened!

[USMCDR]

Changing what we know about the universe forever! I can't wait to hear about all the exciting things we are about to learn!

[australien]

It's weird that literally every other channel has more current info on the JWST than the actual JWST channel 🤔

[gary]

im so happy i didn't died before they launched it i waited so many years!

[oker]

I managed to gain consciousness in time to watch this. It was in the early morning for me; and, I must say I felt the excitement of it; from the people shown to the launch.

Lots of people are showing "tracking of James Webb live:" None of them are accurate; you guys should do a live tracking of James Webb!

[gandigooglegandigoogle]

bravo a tous !! quel bel exemple de coopération internationale ! je suis extrêmement fier de cela! un grand merci à tous !

[DrumToTheBassWoop]

Humanity's most cutting edge toy, so precious. 😎

[DaddlerTheDalek]

It was a big moment for space exploration.

[Muonium]

I was recently very surprised to learn that SOHO the solar and heliospheric observatory launched over 25 years ago is still going and only using 5kg of its 100kg fuel supply PER DECADE, and has the ability to probably go another ten years observing at the L1 point. Does JWST have the potential to go this long after its initial 10 year expected life, or is operation at the L2 point intrinsically more fuel consuming? Thx

[yahyamiraki]

به تیم jwst تبریک میگم. فقط این رو بگم که بی صبرانه منتظر تصاویر ارسالی از وب هستیم که تابستان ارسال خواهد شد و بشریت رو شگفت زده خواهد کرد.

[lingalasaiteja]

James webb begins a voyage back to the birth of the universe 🔥❤

[edtd]

One small blastoff for man one giant leap for mankind