EVE Fanfest 2023 - Mark McCaughrean: The James Webb Space Telescope:from first light to new planets

After more than three decades of development, construction, integration, and testing, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope was launched from French Guiana on Christmas Day 2021. Following six months of complex deployment and commissioning in orbit around the Sun-Earth L2 point, the observatory has been in full scientific operation since July 2022.