Uploaded July 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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NASA now is targeting Oct. 31, 2021, for the launch of the agency’s James Webb Space Telescope from French Guiana, due to impacts from the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, as well as technical challenges.

Read more:
nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-announces-new-james-webb-space-telescope-target-launch-date

The James Webb Space Telescope will be the world’s premier space science observatory and will solve mysteries in our solar system, look beyond to distant worlds around other stars, and probe the mysterious structures and origins of our universe and our place in it. Webb is an international program led by NASA with its partners, ESA (European Space Agency) and the Canadian Space Agency.

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Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

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