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To deploy antennas, mirrors and sun shield. it is 100 times more powerful than the hubble teescope before it. scientists will get a deeper look into the universe capturing light so far that the lens will show images of what happened 13 billion years into the past, maybe even from the beginning of the universe. >> we are going to discover incredible things that we never imagined. >> reporter: the new seven-ton telescope will also expand the search for earth-like planets with elements that make life possible. thousands of people from 14 countries worked on the project for more than two decades, ...

Virtually. take me back to the emotion that you felt. >> i was just thrilled that it was like that and not surprised a bit. of course, we planned and we reversed and we did everything necessary to make it work. so i wasn't surprised, but i was certainly thrilled. it's wonderful. >> we want to show video now of the telescope detaching from the orion 5 rocket. the telescope has done so many things successfully already, talking about the incredible detachment, the mid course correction. it's going to deploy antennas, mirrors and that huge sun shield over the next two weeks. talk about the accompl...

Punching a hole through the clouds. 20 seconds into the flight... this is the james webb space telescope. it's a successor to hubble, but 100 times more powerful. after three decades in the making, and a cost of $10 billion, it's finally on its way. we've never attempted anything like that in space before. we're going to be entering a whole new regime of astrophysics. a new frontier. and that is what gets so many of us excited about james webb space telescope. this space telescope is a feat of engineering. at its heart is a 6.5 metre—wide mirror, made up of 18 hexagonal segments, each coated...

Its size means it can detect the incredibly faint light coming from the most distant stars. it also has a huge sun shield, about the size of a tennis court. it's made up of five layers, each as thin as a human hair, and this protects the telescope from the heat and light of the sun. sitting a million miles away from the earth, the telescope will give us our deepest ever view of the cosmos. from seeing the birth of the very first stars and galaxies, to revealing new planets in far—flung solar systems. what excites me is making discoveries, things we haven't thought about. and there's a whole ...

Telescope ever sent into space. punching a hole through the clouds. 20 seconds into the flight... this is the james webb space telescope. it's a successor to hubble, but 100 times more powerful. after three decades in the making and a cost of $10 billion, it's finally on its way. we've never attempted anything like that in space before. we're going to be entering a whole new regime of astrophysics. a new frontier. and that is what gets so many of us excited about james webb space telescope. this space telescope is a feat of engineering. at its heart is a 6.5 metre—wide mirror, made up of 18 ...