NASA to live-stream launch of £7.5bn alien-hunting time machine telescope
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dailystar.co.ukNASA prepares for the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope.The $10bn (about £7.4bn) telescope will be the largest and most powerful if its kind ever sent into space.It is expected to blast off from the European Space Agency’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, just before lunchtime on Christmas Day.The telescope is being launched using an ESA Ariane 5 rocket and NASA will be streaming the launch online.This mission, some 30 years in the making, will let astronomers get a new look at distant star systems – observing events so far distant that the light from them will have taken millions of years to get here.Professor Martin Barstow, chair of the Space Telescope Institute Council and director of strategic partnerships at Space Park.
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