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NASA's 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.
It took more than two weeks for the massive observatory to return to dry land. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope traveled for 5,800 miles (9,334 km) in a custom-built shipping container from California to Kourou, French Guiana. Now that Webb has arrived in Kourou, NASA's engineers are working on getting it ready for its next stop: space.
Calibriarrivefg_gunn_primary_002.jpg After the custom-built shipping container carrying Webb is unloaded from the MN Colibri, Webb will be transported
The space observatory, which is a joint collaboration of NASA, will now be driven to its launch site, Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, before its launch.
The James Webb Telescope, the $10 billion successor to the Hubble, arrived in French Guiana on Tuesday ahead of its expected December 18 launch.