The James Webb Space Telescope is parked a million miles from Earth and runs on less power than a household kettle — and its deployment sequence had 344 single points of failure, any one of which coul

The James Webb Space Telescope operates in a remote orbit 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, relying on complex engineering that required 344 single points of failure to be managed during deployment. The telescope's design allows it to observe the early universe by maintaining extreme cold for its infrared instruments.