NASA's $10 Billion New Observatory: James Webb Space Telescope Gets a Launch Date
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SciTechDaily.com ^
| 09 September 2021 | NASA
NASA plans to launch the James Webb Space Telescope into orbit on December 18, 2021, to serve as the premier deep space observatory for the next decade.
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James Webb’s Upper Stage is off to the Launch Site
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Universe Today ^
| 8/20/2021 | Matt Williams
Posted on August 20, 2021August 20, 2021 by Matt WilliamsJames Webb’s Upper Stage is off to the Launch SiteIn November (or early December) of this year, after many excruciating delays, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will finally launch to space. As
the most advanced and complex observatory ever deployed, the James Webb will use its advanced suite of instruments to observe stars, exoplanets, and galaxies in the near and mid-infrared spectrum. In the process, it will address some of the most enduring mysteries about the nature of the Universe.When the time comes, the James Webb will fly aboard an...
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James Webb Space Telescope Passes Key Launch Clearance Review
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SciTechDaily ^
| 02 July 2021 | EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY
The international James Webb Space Telescope has passed the final mission analysis review for its launch on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana...Launch readiness date is 31 October 2021.
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NASA OFFICIALS ARE WORRIED THAT PIRATES WILL STEAL THE JAMES WEBB TELESCOPE
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Futurism ^
| 03/12/2021 | Victor Tangermann
The massive space telescope, featuring a 21 foot mirror, and a tennis court-sized protective cage, is far too large to stick inside a plane. Instead,
NASA will have to ship the massive mirror right through the Panama Canal for its eventual launch in French Guiana — and NASA is worried that the journey could attract robbers. The shipping time and location will be hush-hush to ward off any extremely ambitious thieves. All we know is that it will sail off in late summer. It’s an especially harrowing sea passage for a project that has been going on for over two...
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New Target Launch Date for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope
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SciTechDaily.com ^
| 17 July 2020
NASA now is targeting October 31, 2021, for the launch of the agency’s James Webb Space Telescope from French Guiana, due to impacts from the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, as well as technical challenges...Webb will use existing program funding to stay within its $8.8 billion development cost cap...Once in orbit, Webb will
unfold its delicate five-layered sunshield until it reaches the size of a tennis court. Webb will then deploy its iconic 6.5-meter primary mirror that will detect the faint light of far-away stars and galaxies.
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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Fully Stowed in Launch Configuration [Test]
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SciTechDaily ^
| 21 May 2020 | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has been successfully folded and stowed into the same configuration it will have when loaded onto an Ariane 5 rocket for launch next year...After completing the series of tests, Webb will be deployed [unfolded] one last time on Earth for testing prior to preparing for launch.
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Mistakes delay NASA’s new telescope yet again (James Webb Space Telescope delayed to 2021)
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New York Post ^
| 6/28/18 | Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s next-generation space telescope has been delayed yet again at a staggering cost of $1 million a day. For
the third time in less than a year, the space agency announced a lengthy postponement Wednesday for the James Webb Space Telescope. The observatory will now fly no earlier than 2021; until last fall, it was on the books for a 2018 launch. The telescope’s overall cost is now expected to reach nearly $10 billion. Development cost alone will exceed the $8 billion cap set by Congress by more than $800 million and require reauthorization. An independent...
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Why NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is such a fiscal black hole
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The Hill ^
| 4/12/18 | Mark Whittington
The announcement by NASA that launch of the James Webb Space Telescope is going to be delayed over another year, now May 2020, felt like déjà vu. When
the JWST was first proposed in 1997, it was supposed to launch in 2007 and cost half a billion dollars. Now the launch date is 13 years later and the cost is at least $8.8 billion. NASA will have to go back to Congress for more money if the huge space observatory exceeds previous cost caps. In the meantime, NASA is convening an independent review board that will examine the problems that...
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"James Webb and SLS are NASA jobs programs & What is to be done."
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The John Batchelor Show ^
| March 28, 2018 | John Batchelor Show w/Robert Zimmerman
Webb’s new delay epitomizes the systemic incompetence of Washington. Despite being 13 years behind schedule and costing eight times more than originally planned, NASA and its contractors still couldn’t get things right....
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"The James Webb Telescope: A Signpost for Identifying Fake News Sources"
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Behind the Black ^
| March 28, 2018 | Robert Zimmerman
"The news yesterday that NASA will once again have to delay the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope due to a variety of technical issues and management errors not only exemplified the fundamental failure of the federal government, it also illustrated the routine failures of today’s mainstream press.The failures of the
federal government however is not the focus of this essay.... Instead, the announcement yesterday and the coverage of it by the press provides us a perfect and very obvious signpost for differentiating between the fake news sources that are generally unreliable or too often allow their biases to...
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NASA Says James Webb Telescope will Study Solar System’s “Ocean Worlds”
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universetoday.com ^
| Matt Williams
One of the main focuses will be on the plumes of water that have been observed breaking through the icy surfaces of Enceladus and Europa. Since 2005, scientists have known that Enceladus has plumes that periodically erupt from its southern polar region, spewing water and organic chemicals that replenish Saturn’s E-Ring. It
has since discovered that these plumes reach all the way into the interior ocean that exists beneath Enceladus’ surface. In 2012, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope detected similar plumes coming from Europa. These plumes were spotted coming from the moon’s southern hemisphere, and were estimated to reach...
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All Systems Go' for James Webb Telescope
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The Daily Galaxy ^
| 2 Aug, 2017
Set to be launched in 2018 from Kourou, French Guiana, the JWST will embark on a journey to unravel the universe’s mysteries, "from discovering the first stars and galaxies" to "studying the atmospheres of alien planets around other stars." “This
was the first time all the different parts worked together at the same time, and this was the first time it was tested against the actual spacecraft flight hardware,” explained Alan Johns, ground segment and operations manager for the Webb telescope at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. NASA called, and the Webb telescope responded. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently...
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What will the James Webb Space Telescope reveal ...? (Trunc; Hubble Replacement)
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New Atlas ^
| 2-24-2017 | Nick Lavars
The discovery of seven habitable planets just 40 light years away is certainly impressive, but the fact is, they are still 40 light years away. Unless
we're willing and able to spend thousands of years traveling through space, we won't be rolling into the TRAPPIST-1 system anytime soon. This means that over the coming decades, advanced scientific instruments closer to home will play very important roles in exploring these distant worlds – perhaps none more so than the James Webb Space Telescope. So what can we expect when it is fired into orbit next year? We checked in with some...
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James Webb is Dems’ best shot in 2016
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Boston Herald ^
| 01/04/2014 | Whitt Flora
President Obama is likely to leave office with one of the lowest approval ratings in American history — primarily because of his dogged insistence on dragging the country as far left as he can in both foreign and domestic affairs. Nominating
a first-term senator from Massachusetts such as Elizabeth Warren, whose shrill pronunciamentos mark her even further to the left than Obama, likely would relegate the Democratic Party to the political sidelines for at least two decades. And with Hillary Clinton now moving leftward and endorsing Obama’s major diplomatic and economic initiatives to counter Warren, the Democrats seem hell-bent on...
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