48+ James Webb Space Telescope Pics. One of the james webb space telescope's most iconic features is its segmented primary mirror: Northrop grumman leads the industry team for nasa's james webb space telescope (jwst), the largest, most complex and powerful space telescope ever built.

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The fully assembled james webb space telescope with its sunshield and unitized pallet structures (which fold up around the telescope for launch) are seen partially deployed to an open configuration to enable telescope installation. Once in space, unfolding and readying webb for science is a complex process that will take about six months. .the james webb space telescope or jwst will succeed the highly successful hubble telescope as nasa's flagship general purpose telescope in space.

The official account of nasa's next generation james webb space telescope, launching in 2021.

Canada has contributed a scientific instrument and a guidance sensor. Our place in space — hubble meets james webb (italian). The webb telescope is so large; The james webb space telescope (jwst) is a space telescope that is part of nasa's next generation space telescope program, developed in coordination between nasa, the european space agency, and the canadian space agency.