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 could have ended the mission - Space Daily

The James Webb Space Telescope operates from a halo orbit around the Sun-Earth L2 point, roughly 1.5 million kilometres from Earth, and runs on about one kilowatt of power. Many household electric kettles draw more than that. The kilowatt figure comes from NA…