Uploaded November 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Engineers on the ground will remotely orchestrate a complex sequence of deployments in the hours and days immediately after the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope. This animation shows the nominal sequence for these deployments.

Music Credit: Universal Production Music "Connecting Ideas Instrumental"

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Michael McClare (KBRwyle): Lead Producer
Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET): Technical Support
Adriana Manrique Gutierrez (KBRwyle): Lead Animator

Download video: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14016

View more deployment animation clips: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20339