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It’s a project worth over $ 10 billion, almost a myth for space enthusiasts, which could revolutionize our knowledge of the origin of the universe. On Saturday 25 December, the James Webb telescope will finally take off from Kourou in Guyana, 10 years late.
After successive delays, here it is finally rolling slowly towards its launching area. The many journalists who arrived in Kourou (Guyana) know that the image of this Ariane 5 ready to take off on Saturday, December 25, embodies nearly thirty years of work. Under its hood, a 12-meter-high space telescope, the largest and most advanced ever to be sent into space. Canadians, Europeans or Americans, more than 10,000 engineers worked on this pharaonic project.
Thanks to its infrared technology, the James Webb telescope will be able to track the first galaxy, black hole, or sign of life around exoplanets, a revolution for modern astronomy. The James Webb represents nearly 10 billion euros of high technology. A telescope so precious that its date of arrival in Guyana by boat has remained secret to prevent pirates from seizing it to demand ransom. If he succeeds in his long and very delicate deployment, he should send his first pictures in 6 months.