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But initially, James Webb Space Telescope had to leave Earth behind and to do that, it needed to get to its launch site. Here is the freight ship bring NASAs James Webb Space Telescope that gotten here in French Guiana on Oct. 12, 2021, after a 16-day sea trip. The space telescope is so large that it could not fit inside the payload fairings of a lot of U.S. rockets, so NASA and its European Space Agency partners (among others) picked Arianespaces Ariane 5 heavy-lift rocket to carry the observatory.Ariane 5 rockets launch from Europes Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana in South America, so the Webb area telescope was delivered by cargo ship to the site with some secrecy, as the objective team was concerned about pirates..