14 DAY TRIAL // Members of the general public who are interested to see how engineers at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) are putting together the American space agency's next-generation telescope can do so at this link. Two cameras are taking photos of what goes on in a huge clean room every minute.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is currently being assembled in Greenbelt, Maryland. The clean room where most of the work is conducted has recently been outfitted with two webcams that update their view every minute.
Work is usually conducted inside the facility between 5 am and 1:30 pm PDT (8 am to 4:30 pm EDT), Monday through Friday, when the public can see engineers at NASA piecing the world's most complex telescope together. The JWST will be several times more powerful than the Hubble.
Most of the work currently revolves around the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), one of the four science instruments to go aboard the spacecraft. It was delivered to NASA just a couple of weeks ago, by officials at the European Space Agency (ESA).