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The James Webb Space Telescope will soon soar into the heavens | Science & technology

The $10 billion telescope (pictured) is now due to launch four days later than planned on December 22 on an Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket from Kourou, a town in French Guiana, South America.

The US space agency has estimated there are 344 ways the six-tonne observatory could fail when it takes up its orbit 930,000 miles from Earth shortly after its launch on December 18.

NASAs James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been unpacked in French Guiana. The $10 billion observatory is a successor to Hubble, and will let astronomers peer deeper into the Universe.

NASA plans to launch the James Webb Space Telescope into orbit Dec. 18, 2021, to serve as the premier deep space observatory for the next decade. Ready to meet the mighty Webb?

The James Webb Telescope, the $10 billion successor to the Hubble, arrived in French Guiana on Tuesday ahead of its expected December 18 launch.

Copy After years of delays, the James Webb Space Telescope may actually launch this year, having passed a "final mission analysis review," were told. Work began on the space telescope, once called the Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST), in 1996 with a planned launch date of 2007. That slipped almost immediately due to budget cuts and technological problems. An influx of funding helped get it closer on track, though the project just has this darn habit of blowing past deadlines, even to this...

The observatory is designed to be a successor to the Hubble space telescope  It has to be folded to fit in the rocket that will take it out of Earths atmosphere  The latest unfolding is part of the final run of tests before the mirror is deployed  It will go into a stable orbit between Earth and the Sun a million miles from Earth The telescope will launch on an Ariane 5 rocket from the European Space Agency ELA-3 launch site in Kourou, French Guiana in October 2021

A number of major telescopes and observatories are coming online this decade Many will aim to search for signs for exoplanets and indications of alien life They range from radio telescopes to observatories on Earth and in space The James Webb Space Telescope will orbit the Sun and be the worlds largest optical and near infrared telescope when it comes online in 2025

Telescopes coming soon that could help us find life beyond Earth Ryan Morrison For Mailonline © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo Over the next decade a number of new telescopes will come online that could help to find signs of life on worlds outside the solar system. They include orbital observatories like the James Webb space telescope and Earth-based systems like the massive Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) in Chile.   The goal of the next generation of observatories...