UPDATE: New Target Launch Date for the James Webb Space Telescope
Due to adverse weather conditions at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope – initially scheduled for December 24 – has been postponed. The new target launch date is December 25. The evening of December 23, local time, another weather forecast will be issued in order to confirm the date of December 25.
For media inquiries regarding launch delays, please contact Arianespace.
LONGUEUIL, QC, Dec. 21, 2021 /CNW/ - On December 25, the James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful space telescope ever built, is planned to launch from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. Media representatives can watch live coverage of the launch on NASA TV starting at 6:00 a.m. ET. The launch is scheduled for 7:20 a.m. ET.
A "clean feed" of the launch without commentary will be available by satellite feed. The uplink will begin at 7:00 a.m. ET and continue for an hour after launch. Please contact alise.m.fisher@nasa.gov to receive the satellite coordinates.
Webb is an international collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). Canada has contributed a scientific instrument and a guidance sensor to the massive observatory.
Media representatives interested in talking to CSA representatives or Canadian researchers about the telescope may contact:
Expert | Contact |
Canadian Space Agency | |
| Canadian Space Agency Media Relations Office Telephone: 450-926-4370 |
National Research Council of Canada | |
Chris Willott, Canadian James Webb Space Telescope Project Scientist | Media Relations, National Research Council of Canada Telephone: 613-991-1431 Toll-free: 1-855-282-1637 TTY: 613-949-3042 Email: media@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
Wesley Fraser Telephone: 250-880-1428 Email: westhefras@gmail.com |
Wesley Fraser, Senior Research Officer Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Centre | |
Université de Montréal | |
René Doyon, FGS/NIRISS Principal Investigator | Telephone: 514-349-5779 Email: rene.doyon@umontreal.ca |
Nathalie Ouellette, Outreach Scientist for Webb in Canada | Telephone: 613-531-1762 |
Étienne Artigau, Senior Research Associate, Institut de recherche sur les exoplanètes | Email: etienne.artigau@umontreal.ca |
Anthony (Tony) Moffat, Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics | Telephone: 514-486-5323 Email: moffat@astro.umontreal.ca |
McGill University | |
Lisa Dang, Astrophysicist and PhD Candidate | Email: lisa.dang@physics.mcgill.ca
Katherine Gombay, Senior Communications Officer, Media Relations Telephone: 514-398-2189 Cell: 514-717-2289 Email: katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca |
Daryl Haggard, Professor of Physics, James Webb Space Telescope Co–Investigator | Telephone: 438-499-3348 Email: daryl.haggard@mcgill.ca |
University of Alberta | |
Gregory R. Sivakoff, Associate Professor, Department of Physics | Telephone: 780-242-5782 Email: sivakoff@ualberta.ca |
Erik Rosolowsky, Associate Professor of Physics | Telephone: 780-399-6465 Email: rosolowsky@ualberta.ca |
Western University | |
Els Peeters, Professor of Physics and Astronomy | Jeff Renaud, Senior Media Relations Telephone: 519-520-7281 Email: jrenaud9@uwo.ca |
University of British Columbia | |
Harvey Richer, Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy | Telephone: 604-562-6428 Email: richer@astro.ubc.ca |
University of Toronto | |
Lamiya Mowla, Dunlap Postdoctoral Fellow, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics | Telephone: 347-592-6864 Email: lamiya.mowla@utoronto.ca
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Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory | |
Dr. Gordon C. MacLeod, Research Fellow | Telephone: 519-495-7751 Email: Gord@hartrao.ac.za |
Bishop's University | |
Jason Rowe, Canada Research Chair in Exoplanet Astrophysics | Olivier Bouffard, Director of Communications Telephone: 819-822-9600, ext. 2840 Email: obouffar@UBishops.ca
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James Sikora, Postdoctoral Researcher
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York University | |
Adam Muzzin, Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy | Telephone: 416-565-0994 Email: muzzin@yorku.ca |
Date: | December 25, 2021 |
Time: | 6:00 a.m. ET (beginning of the broadcast) |
What: | Launch of the James Webb Space Telescope |
Where: | Media representatives can connect to NASA TV to see live coverage of the launch. |
More information:
- Video playlist – James Webb Space Telescope
- James Webb Space Telescope: What's New?
- Information kit - James Webb Space Telescope
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