{"id":139095,"date":"2021-12-25T18:06:22","date_gmt":"2021-12-25T18:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=139095"},"modified":"2021-12-25T18:06:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-25T18:06:22","slug":"james-webb-space-telescope-ariane-5-rocket-launches-successfully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/technology\/james-webb-space-telescope-ariane-5-rocket-launches-successfully\/","title":{"rendered":"James Webb Space Telescope Ariane 5 Rocket Launches Successfully"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The launch vehicle &#8220;Ariane-5&#8221; was launched with the next-generation space infrared observatory &#8220;James Webb&#8221;.\u00a0The broadcast\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7nT7JGZMbtM\" rel=\"nofollow\">was conducted<\/a>\u00a0on YouTube.\u00a0Now the telescope has to cover 1.5 million km before it reaches its goal and unfolds the mirror to scan the universe in the optical and infrared ranges.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"James Webb Space Telescope Deployment Sequence (Nominal)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RzGLKQ7_KZQ?feature=oembed\" width=\"916\" height=\"515\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The telescope is expected to operate for at least 5-10 years in space, being in a halo orbit around the second Lagrange point in the Sun-Earth system.\u00a0In the future, James Webb should replace the Hubble orbiting telescope, launched by the United States in April 1990.\u00a0The diameter of the collecting surface of the main mirror of the second is 2.4 meters, while for the first this parameter reaches 6.5 meters.\u00a0This makes it possible to carry out observations with greater accuracy not only in the optical, but also in the near and mid-infrared ranges.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-139097\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/james-webb.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"685\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/james-webb.png 1000w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/james-webb-800x548.png 800w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/james-webb-909x623.png 909w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/james-webb-432x296.png 432w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/james-webb-560x384.png 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>James Webb, according to its creators, is 100 times more powerful than the famous Hubble telescope, which allowed us to look into the depths of space and learn something new about the development of our universe.\u00a0It took 25 years to create a new telescope, complex tests took almost three years, and the first scientific observations start no earlier than six months after launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The launch vehicle &#8220;Ariane-5&#8221; was launched with the next-generation space infrared observatory &#8220;James Webb&#8221;.\u00a0The broadcast\u00a0was conducted\u00a0on YouTube.\u00a0Now the telescope has to cover 1.5 million km before it reaches its goal and unfolds the mirror to scan the universe in the optical and infrared ranges. The telescope is expected to operate for at least 5-10 years [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/technology\/james-webb-space-telescope-ariane-5-rocket-launches-successfully\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":139096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[805],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-139095","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-news"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}