Ultimate Space Telescope: Making the James Webb Space Telescope | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS
Discover how NASA engineers built and launched the most ambitious telescope of all time.
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How did NASA engineers build and launch the most ambitious telescope of all time? Follow the dramatic story of the James Webb Space Telescope—the most complex machine ever launched into space. If it works, scientists believe that this new eye on the universe will peer deeper back in time and space than ever before to the birth of galaxies, and may even be able to “sniff” the atmospheres of exoplanets as we search for signs of life beyond Earth. But getting it to work is no easy task. The telescope is far bigger than its predecessor, the famous Hubble Space Telescope, and it needs to make its observations a million miles away from Earth—so there will be no chance to go out and fix it. That means there’s no room for error; the most ambitious telescope ever built needs to work perfectly. Meet the engineers making it happen and join them on their high stakes journey to uncover new secrets of the universe.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction
05:44 The Hubble Space Telescope Deep Field and Redshift Galaxies
11:11 JWST Revolutionizes the Way the Universe is Seen
15:55 Challenges of Building the James Webb Space Telescope
25:08 Transporting the Telescope to the Launch Pad
28:20 Launching the James Webb Space Telescope
33:41 Deployment and Operation of the James Webb Space Telescope
40:50 JWST’s Gold Mirrors
46:55 The First Images Taken by JWST
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