Webb Telescope

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The Webb telescope is six times bigger than Hubble. Because it's so big, there aren't any rockets that are big enough to launch it fully deployed. So the whole thing has to be folded up to fit inside a rocket. The engineers haw to find a way to can orgame it into a smaller package so it can actually fit on a rocket ship. Once it launches, it will have to assemble itself in space.

A lava planet, life on other worlds, the very first starlight in the universe — the most powerful space telescope ever built is ready to reveal many mysteries of the cosmos.

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