NASA has announced that the agency will provide coverage of activities for the James Webb Space Telescope, the world’s largest space science telescope. Webb is targeted to launch at 7:20 a.m. EST Saturday, Dec. 25 from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on the northeastern coast of South America.
The Webb mission, an international partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA) and Canadian Space Agency, will explore every phase of cosmic history – from within the solar system to the most distant observable galaxies in the early universe, and everything in between.
Webb will reveal new and unexpected discoveries and help humanity understand the origins of the universe and our place in it.
Recently, Hispanic Network magazine honored NASA engineer Scarlin Hernandez. According to the St. Clair County Community College Library, Hernandez is a spacecraft engineer for the James Webb Space Telescope. An important part of her work is to test the ground systems that will control the telescope.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded her a full scholarship to the Capitol Technology University in Laurel, Maryland. Hernandez completed an internship at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, and by the age of 20, she was part of the ground control system team for the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite.
In 2013, she earned a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, but she found her niche in astronautical engineering. After graduation, Hernandez served as a mission planning lead for the measuring mission satellite before transferring to work on the James Webb Space Telescope mission.
NASA TV live coverage will begin at 6 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 25. NASA will offer a launch broadcast in Spanish beginning at 6:30 a.m. on the agency’s Spanish-language social media accounts and online. For more information, click here to visit.
Before the James Webb Space Telescope can #UnfoldTheUniverse, it has to literally unfold. Find mission updates at:
– @NASAWebb (play-by-play)
– https://t.co/sGBPzkchmf (milestones)
– @NASA (livestreams)
– https://t.co/ht9HRe1k1U (major news)Timeline: https://t.co/aY8ybuWvnW pic.twitter.com/NhMkZiFWH6
— NASA (@NASA) December 21, 2021
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