"It's the largest mirror NASA has ever built, the agency said, but its size created a unique problem. The mirror was so large that it couldn't fit inside a rocket."

CNN: The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully launched. >"The James Webb Space Telescope, NASA's premier observatory of the next decade, successfully launched to space Saturday morning. The telescope will study exoplanets in new ways and look deeper into the universe than we've ever been able to before."

>"The James Webb Space Telescope, NASA's premier observatory of the next decade, successfully launched to space Saturday morning. The telescope will study exoplanets in new ways and look deeper into the universe than we've ever been able to before."

[https://edition.cnn.com/2021/12/25/world/james-webb-space-telescope-launch-scn/index.html](https://edition.cnn.com/2021/12/25/world/james-webb-space-telescope-launch-scn/index.html)