Does JWST is a large, infrared-optimized webb space telescope?”
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a planned infrared space observatory, the successor to the aging Hubble Space Telescope. The main scientific goal is to observe the most distant objects in the universe, those beyond the reach of either ground based instruments or the Hubble. The JWST project is a NASA-led international collaboration with contributors in 15 nations, including NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency. Originally called the Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST), it was renamed after NASA’s second administrator, James E. Webb, in 2002. Current plans call for the telescope to be launched on an Ariane 5 rocket, no earlier than June 2013.
