Space
By Tariq Malik
December 27, 2021
NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope successfully deployed a critical antenna Sunday (Dec. 26) just one day after its Christmas launch into space.
The space telescope unfolded what scientists call a gimbaled antenna assembly that carries the high-rate data dish responsible for beaming Webb’s observations of the early universe back to Earth. Webb launched into spaceSaturday atop an Ariane 5 rocket that lifted off from a spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.