Take-off and orbiting in the video

Built by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), US (NASA), European (ESA) and Canadian (CSA) space agencies, it will depart at 1:20 pm on Saturday, December 25th. With its primary mirror area of ​​25 square meters, it is the largest ever sent into space, and after 29 days it will orbit the Lockrange L2 at a distance of 1.5 million kilometers from Earth. It was often said that he was the successor to the Hubble Telescope, which was launched in 1990, and due to the size of the project, it would actually be completely different from its predecessor. James Webb, who was created to observe infrared rays, wants to make it possible to observe the atmospheres of planets outside the solar system, but also to explore the universe as it did 13.7 billion years ago.

Who is animating this directly?

Journalist Arthur Carpentier hosted this live video, during which he answered your questions. Three speakers surrounded him to deepen different things around the James Web Space Telescope. All of them have participated in its development, or will participate in its operation.

Live video show

The live stream is divided into three main episodes, the highlight of which is the JWST departure over the Ariane 5 launcher, scheduled for 1:20 pm Paris time:

• 11:00 – The beginning of live
  11 hours 15 – Search for the first lights and galaxies in the universe
  With Nicole Neswatba, Astronomer, CNRS research director at the Lockrange Laboratory of the C டிte d’Azur Laboratory, specializing in the evolution of galaxies.
• 12 hours 15 – Presentation of the James Webb Project: Understanding the Role of the Astronomical Event of the Decade
  With Olivier La Marley, Head of the cosmic science project at the National Center for Space Research (CNES), a French space agency.
• 13 hours 20 – Lift-off!
• 13 hours 45 – Smell the air of exoplanets and look for clues in life: how JWST should disrupt our knowledge of these distant worlds
  With Frank Celsius, CNRS Research Director at the Bordeaux Astrophysics Laboratory, specializing in the study of extraterrestrial atmospheres.