The long-delayed ‘successor’ to the Hubble Space Telescope just got a new launch date.
The long-delayed James Webb Space Telescope has a new end-of-year launch date, NASA has confirmed. The new telescope is scheduled to launch from a European Space Agency South American launch site in Kourou, French Guiana, on December 18,2021, in what is going to be one of the most highly anticipated space launches ever. The new space telescope has passed its final testing and now with the successful July launch of the Ariane 5 rocket that will carry it into orbit, the road is clear for the next-gen space telescope to lift off this year. Originally slated for an August 2020 launch, the James Webb Space Telescope is set to become the single most powerful telescope humanity has ever put into service; it’s expected to be a major step up from the already incredibly powerful Hubble Space Telescope.
