PARIS, December 25. /TASS/. The payload part of the Ariane 5 rocket carrying the James Webb orbital telescope has separated from the rocket, according to the Arianespace online livestream.

If the standout rocket launch of 2020 was the flight that took US astronauts back into orbit from American soil, then the major rocket event of 2021 must surely be the launch of the James Webb ...

This image shows how Webb will be folded and stowed in the Ariane 5 spacecraft. Webb's solar panel is deployed about 1/2 hour after launch to provide power for the mission.

One of Ariane-5's most famous missions was the launch of the massive James Webb Telescope in 2021. The mission was so accurate and successful that scientists didn't have to use any of the ...

A full scale model of the James Webb Space Telescope Of course, JWST is designed to be moved, and to fit inside the 5.4-meter fairing of the Ariane rocket that will take it to orbit. But before it ...

Engineers have unboxed the James Webb Space Telescope in French Guiana and will now prepare it for launch. The $10bn successor to the Hubble observatory arrived at Europe's Kourou spaceport five ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has imaged a collision between two galaxies that appears to have created a beaming smile in ...

Eight of the most fascinating discoveries made by the James Webb Space Telescope so far. From Acting To Raising $100M For His ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a pair of distant galaxies being twisted into a cosmic ...

Initially launching in 2021 after a series of delays kept pushing the window back, before eventually settling into its ...

In her 2019 book The Sonic Episteme, philosopher Robin James postulates the shift from modernity’s visual regime to a neoliberal 21st-century knowledge economy increasingly shaped by sound and ...

On July 5, 2023, the Ariane 5 launch vehicle took flight for the last time, thus ending a storied 27-year career for what was Europe’s first heavy-lift rocket. Nearly ten months later ...