Weather delays NASA launch of James Webb Telescope until Christmas day

Photo caption: The James Webb Space Telescope during a test deployment of its primary mirror in March 2020. Photo credit: Northrop Grumman. Article by Leslie Katz. CNET – December 21, 2021.

If all goes according to plan, Christmas will bring an exciting gift for skywatchers the world over.

The much-anticipated launch of NASA’s James Webb Telescope has been delayed yet again — but only by 24 hours this time. The launch window is now set for Christmas morning starting at 4:20 a.m. PT rather than the same time the morning of Christmas eve.

Decades of work have gone into the launch of NASA’s most powerful telescope ever, a successor to the aging Hubble Telescope, which has faced a series of technical challenges in recent months. […]

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