JWST Deployment Sequence

The James Webb Space Telescope is the world's next-generation space observatory and successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. The most powerful space telescope ever built, the Webb Telescope will observe the most distant objects in the universe, provide images of the first galaxies formed and see unexplored planets around distant stars.

Learn more about the James Webb Space Telescope here:

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[itsalex]

7 years ago.... and now it's finally happened

[BetterIntegra]

I think this is the most important device being built. So in a sense this is the greatest thing humans will have built so far. imo

[abdullahalrasheed]

After a long and extensive research I could successfully find out that the music in this video is actually two separate musics, the first one (which ends at 2:10) is called "West One Music - adagio"

I couldn't find the second one "yet"

[douglasstrother]

The spacecraft is in its high bay as of Aug 2019.
It's quite a sight!

[ronaldtaylor]

Beautiful engineering, I'm have much hope for this wonderful instrument.  Congratulations to the talented design team.

[Hey_MikeZeroEchoP]

Sunshades deployed on port and starboard side!!

Next will be the tensioning of the sunshades, five (5) of them if I'm correct. 31 Dec 2021P.

[nilzarodrigues]

Maravilha de engenharia! Jame Webbe parece uma flor desbrochando, pétalas
no espaço. Estou apaixonada!

[Charles-]

well we're now with the real thing

[chadd]

I appreciate that there isn't one thumbs down on this video. Us as a sepecies need this.

[Big_Not_Good]

Soooo, those big ellipses at the end, are those in any way to scale?

[JaySott]

So many moving parts to this one, and once it's out there, there is no going to fix it like we were able to with Hubble..  Should offer some spectacular (albeit somewhat different) views than the Hubble (which I hope gives us a few more years before its inevitable re-entry).

[LegenwaitforitPieter]

I hope Elon Musk is going to join building these kinds of things soon.