James Webb Space Telescope Launch and Deployment

Northrop Grumman is proud to lead the industry team building NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. This revolutionary observatory is the largest telescope built for space and the most powerful infrared telescope ever made. It is the scientific successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. The Webb telescope will travel 1 million miles from earth and look back over 13.5 billion years, providing images of the first galaxies formed and observing unexplored planets around distant stars. The breakthrough technology developed for the Webb Telescope will expand our understanding of the universe, rewrite textbooks and inspire a future generation of engineers and scientists.

This animation captures Webb’s journey into orbit, 1 million miles away from earth, depicting the sequence of events surrounding the launch and deployment of this game changing observatory. The travel time, distance and transformation of the telescope as it deploys are included in this sequence.

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[jaapongeveer]

I'm 66, if I live to see pix from the beginning of time, I'll die happy.

[sunUK]

Who's here after the launch?
A marvellous masterpiece indeed!!
Thanks to all humanity👍👍

[mjproebstle]

cant wait!! my cousin is an engineer on the team 😊

[BenJammins]

It's crazy this video was back in 2017 and so much has changed between and the launch yesterday

[johnnie]

The origami folding of this instrument scares the hell out of me. I can't wait to see the very first image that this telescope will deliver.

[tomriddle]

This video really deserves a 1B view. Respect to the scientists and engineers working on this project.

[valsainking]

I got tears in my eyes just from watching this. Truly a humbling undertaking. God bless all the scientists who endeavored for years to make this epic project a reality.

[enioni]

Just praying that everything goes right. The pictures we will recieve will be ofcourse gorgeous.

[SaltborneHeathen]

I am going to be on the edge of my seat while this deploys

[dejiamoo]

Oh man. That thing is intricate AF. Wish you guys luck!

[NaesNavillus]

Can't freaking wait!!! I've been waiting for this since I was 16 and I'm almost 30 years old now!! Here's to a flawless mission 🙏🏻🤞🏻

[ggi]

It all seems so complicated and fragile. The telescope with all of its parts, the mission, the entire thing. I hope it all comes out just as planned because this is gonna be really big. Best of luck to all involved.

[locutusdborg]

A stunning achievement of mankind. This will open our eyes to the universe in unprecedented fashion. This is our purpose, to explore the universe.

[dariomadeit]

Visiting this video today to say we finally did it. The moment I’ve been waiting for since I was 10 is finally here. I’m 21 now and the James Webb Space Telescope launched yesterday 🙏🏼

[dylanaguilar]

Damn even after it finnnaly gets in space we still gotta wait 160 days to see if everything went as planned, that’s gunna kill me

[RU-zmwj]

This is magnificent, but so many operations have to perfectly happen to deploy it...so many. Let's cross our collective fingers and pray for this to come off. It will open up our universe, like nothing else.

[fallensoul]

Cant wait to see a picture of Proxima B.

[ramilarbiol]

This presentation is very accurate for 4 years after uploading. Kudos to You and to the Engineers, Scientists and Mathematicians.

[covenantsoul]

I hope that if an engineer says, "Wait a sec...there's some ice forming on the O-ring of the booster rocket" – they'll listen to him.

[goddamn]

If this process works fully, those engineers need to be give some really big medals and have to be made heroes. Engineers are modest and let their work do the talking so the public takes them for granted. The public has to be made to acknowledge their efforts..