Development began in 1996 for a launch that was initially planned for 2007 and a 500-million-dollar budget. It has now spent 10 billion. There is no such thing as a perpetual motion machine but so far this has been a perpetual non motion endless delay money sucking machine.
My understanding is the Hubble Space Telescope is broken.
So maybe they can up the launch date of the Webb Space Telescope to sooner than October.