What s Stopping the James Webb Space Telescope?

The James Webb Space Telescope is the most complex telescope we’ve ever sent into space. But, Webb is not, in fact, in space… yet. Host: Caitlin Hofmeister SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/webb_irb_report_and_response_0.pdf https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/ https://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/starsgalaxies/webb_technologies.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/science/nasa-webb-telescope.html https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/06/nasa-s-webb-telescope-delayed-2021 https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/nasa-evaluating-jwst-independent-review-report/ https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/nasa-s-james-webb-space-telescope-has-been-assembled-for-the-first-time ------ Images: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20250 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12894 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10569 https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw1236a/ https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12241 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11769 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13337 https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/about/innovations/microshutters.html https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11523 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12145 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/rocket-gm177309667-20220743 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12409 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12461