NASA is counting down towards a Christmas Day launch for its greatest area telescope ever and you can watch everything live online.The James Webb Space Telescope is the successor to NASA and Europes renowned Hubble Space Telescope. The next-generation abilities of the upcoming observatory, coupled with the shopping list of mission hold-ups over the last numerous years, makes this a highly-anticipated occasion across the huge community. You can see the whole mission on our live updates page here. The Webb area telescope is currently arranged to introduce no earlier than 7:20 a.m. on Saturday (Dec. 25) from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. On that day, youll have the ability to view one of a number of English-language virtual launch occasions on NASA Live, in addition to Space.com, where we will likewise be streaming the telescopes flight courtesy of NASA TELEVISION. NASA will likewise transmit the launch on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Twitch and Daily Motion. Live updates: NASAs James Webb Space Telescope launchThe James Webb Space Telescope is set up atop its Ariane 5 rocket and waiting for payload fairing encapsulation ahead of its scheduled launch on Dec. 25, 2021 from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. (Image credit: Arianespace) NASAs launch coverage for the Webb area telescope begins at 3 a.m. EST (0800 GMT) on Saturday with an Ariane 5 rocket fueling upgrade. Introduce protection starts in earnest at 6 a.m. EST (1100 GMT) and will consist of live views from Webbs Ariane 5 launch site in French Guiana, NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland and the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, which is house to the area telescopes mission operations center.Alongside its English broadcast, NASA is hosting a Spanish-language Webb launch virtual occasion starting at 6:30 a.m. EST (1130 GMT) on the space agencys site. Audiences can also enjoy by means of the social media accounts for NASA en Español like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. This broadcast will be hosted by Begoña Vila, Webb instrument systems engineer, and will include live commentary from Spanish-speaking members of the telescope mission. NASA will likewise air a clean feed without commentary from 7:00 a.m. till an hour after launch, according to a NASA statement explaining the launch livestreams. There will be audio channels for launch commentary available, nevertheless, and will be supplied in English, Spanish and French. NASA also keeps a Webb area telescope blog where launch updates will be regularly published. Like Hubble, Webb can taking unbelievable observations of the planetary system and beyond. However its new observational responsibilities will mean that it will operate quite differently. Unlike the 31-year old Hubble mission, Webb will not fly through space in a location that is available for servicing. Area shuttle astronauts were able to service Hubble since it orbits about 350 miles (810 km) above the surface area of the Earth. Webb, however, will be approximately 1,000,000 miles (1,609,344 km) from our planet. This viewpoint will help with the operation of its scientific instruments, which in turn will help researchers learn more about the numerous chapters of deep spaces story. It is designed to observe the light from the early universe, exposing how the earliest galaxies and stars formed. It will also boost astronomers understanding of items closer to Earth, like exoplanets and things within our planetary system. Webb is born of a worldwide collaboration that NASA is carrying out with the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). Follow Doris Elin Urrutia on Twitter @salazar_elin. Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom and on Facebook.
NASA is counting down towards a Christmas Day launch for its biggest area telescope ever and you can view it all live online.The James Webb Space Telescope is the follower to NASA and Europes renowned Hubble Space Telescope. The Webb space telescope is presently set up to launch no earlier than 7:20 a.m. on Saturday (Dec. 25) from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. Live updates: NASAs James Webb Space Telescope launchThe James Webb Space Telescope is installed atop its Ariane 5 rocket and awaiting payload fairing encapsulation ahead of its planned launch on Dec. 25, 2021 from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. Launch coverage starts in earnest at 6 a.m. EST (1100 GMT) and will include live views from Webbs Ariane 5 launch website in French Guiana, NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland and the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, which is house to the area telescopes objective operations center.Alongside its English broadcast, NASA is hosting a Spanish-language Webb launch virtual event beginning at 6:30 a.m. EST (1130 GMT) on the space firms site.