The groundbreaking space telescope, which will peer even further into space than Hubble, is now tantalizingly close to its Christmas Day launch.
Ariane 5 is a 50-meter , 780-ton vehicle capable of carrying payloads weighing more than 10 metric tons to geostationary transfer orbit and over 20 metric tons into low-Earth orbit .'s Herschel and Plank missions among others.
The Christmas Day launch date marks yet another delay. Earlier this week the telescope was set to launch on Christmas Eve, December 24, but expected bad weather pushed the date back. And December 22 was yet another delay from December 18, which was caused by a"sudden, unplanned release of a clamp band—which secures Webb to the launch vehicle adapter—caused a vibration throughout the observatory," NASA said.In any case,
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