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All hail the Ariane 5 rocket, which doubled the Webb telescope’s lifetime

Enlarge / The Ariane 5 rocket, with the James Webb Space Telescope, at its launch site in French Guiana. (credit: ESA/S. Corvaja) There were two stunningly good pieces of news about the James Webb Space Telescope this weekend. One was widely reported—that after an intricate, two-week process, the telescope completed its deployment without any difficulties. […]

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Remarkably, NASA has completed deployment of the Webb space telescope

A scale model of the James Webb Space Telescope. (credit: NASA ) For much of the world, Saturday was just another weekend day filled with all of this planet’s problems and perils. The Omicron-fueled pandemic raged around the globe. New York emerged from its first snowstorm of the season. Turmoil continued in Kazakhstan and elsewhere […]

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