James Webb Telescope

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 The James Webb Telescope is a huge and highly advanced space telescope, over 30 years of design and construction, and more than $10 billion spent on it.

Its design officially began in 1996. The initial design of the telescope was initially called the Next Generation Space Telescope or NGST, after that, its name was changed and named after the great NASA administrator (James Edwin Webb). Who led the agency in one of its greatest periods, from 1961 to 1968, During the Apollo missions that put humans on the moon for the first time in history.

The project in the beginning had a budget of about 500 million US dollars, and it was planned to launch it in 2007, but in 2005, they discovered that the telescope would not be able to complete by this shape and initial design, so they made a complete re-design process for it, which continued to 2016.

It was created and designed by NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), and more than 258 companies, agencies and universities; Of these, 142 are from the USA, 104 are from 12 European countries, and 12 are from Canada.

It was launched on Saturday, December 25, on an Ariane 5 rocket operated by the European launch company Arianespace.




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