James Webb Space Telescope

**James Webb Space Telescope**
	NASA/ESA/CSA space telescope launched in 2021
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Instance of	space telescope;
Named after	James E. Webb;
Country of origin	United States;
Operator	Space Telescope Science Institute (spacecraft operation); Goddard Space Flight Center (project management);
Has part(s)	James Webb Space Telescope sunshield; Optical Telescope Element; Integrated Science Instrument Module (NIRCam, NIRSpec, MIRI, Fine Guidance Sensor and Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph); Spacecraft Bus;
Start point	ELA-3;
Destination point	L2 Earth-Sun (halo orbit);
Manufacturer	Northrop Grumman (general contractor); Ball Aerospace & Technologies (primary mirror, secondary mirror, control system, subcontractor); L3Harris Technologies (assembly, system integration, system testing, subcontractor); General Dynamics Mission Systems (ground segment, operations engineering, project commissioning, subcontractor); Materion (optical manufacturing and testing, beryllium, subcontractor); Raytheon (infrared detector, subcontractor); Teledyne Technologies (infrared detector, subcontractor);
Space launch vehicle	Ariane 5 ECA (Ariane flight VA256, 5114);
UTC date of spacecraft launch	25 December 2021 (12:20:07);
Lagrangian point	L2 Earth-Sun;
Type of orbit	halo orbit (L2 Earth-Sun);
Significant event	proposal (Next Generation Space Telescope, 1996); design review (Preliminary Design Review, 2008); design review (Critical Design Review, 2010); construction (telescope, –2016); assembly (telescope, spacecraft bus, James Webb Space Telescope sunshield, 2019); transport (MN Colibri, French Guiana, Redondo Beach, 2021–2021); rocket launch (ELA-3, Ariane flight VA256, 2021); deployment (James Webb Space Telescope sunshield, antenna, radiator, mirror, pallet, 2021–2022); halo orbit (L2 Earth-Sun, 2022–); project commissioning (project management estimation, telescope, 2022–2022); first light (2022); project commissioning (project management estimation, scientific instrument, 2022–2022);
Mass	6,161.42 kg (launch weight);
Width	14.2 m;
Diameter	6.5 m (primary mirror, greater than); 0.74 m (secondary mirror);
Length	21.2 m;
Area	25.4 m² (primary mirror);
Follows	Hubble Space Telescope;
Capital cost	9,700,000,000 United States dollar (2021, whole);
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Authority file
	Q186447; VIAF cluster ID: 129468073; Library of Congress authority ID: nr97043411; NORAF ID: 97039445; BabelNet ID: 03182221n; Minor Planet Center observatory code: 274
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Models

Bus

Sunshield

Structure

Telescope structure

Mirrors

Segment

Three Mirrors

Primary Mirror

One of the segment of the Primary Mirror.
Primary Mirror
Time-lapse- The Assembly of the James Webb Space Telescope Primary Mirror

Secondary Mirror

Secondary Mirror
Secondary Mirror
Secondary Mirror

Tertiary Mirror / aft optics

Instruments

Integrated Science Instrument Module

ISIM Electronics Compartment

NIRCam

NIRSpec

Microshutters
Microshutters

MIRI

FGS

NIRISS

Fully assembled

OTIS

Integration

Testing

ISIM Lowered into Thermal Vacuum Chamber
Sunshield deployement
In Chamber A of the Environment Simulation Laboratory Chamber that simulate the ace
in the NASA Johnson Space Center's Chamber A cleanroom from the arrival to its roll out from the chamber after completing its cryogenic testing.
Solar Array Deployment Tests (video)

Journey to Space

Videos

Part 1 :Packed and Transported to the Ship
Part 2- Loading and Departing
Part 3- Arrival and Off-loading
Part 4- Unpacking in the Cleanroom
Part 5- Spacecraft Fueling.webm

Preparation and launch

Arrival in French Guiana After Sea Voyage
Inside the cleanroom at its launch site at Guiana Space Center, in French Guiana

In Space

Telescope Deployment Sequence
Orbit (video)

First light

Segment identification mosaic
18 unfocused images of same target star HD 84406
Phase 1 annotated completion image of HD 84406
"Before and after" effects of segment alignment
18 segments "stacked" as a single image of HD 84406
Image of the star, 2MASS J17554042+6551277, with a red filter to optimize visual contrast, after fine phasing step completed
JWST image sharpness check

Ground segment

Other diagrams

Personalities

James E. Webb.
John Mather senior for the Webb telescope.