GAO: Webb Continues To Experience Significant Delays
GAO: James Webb Space Telescope: Project Facing Increased Schedule Risk with Significant Work Remaining
“With just under 4 years until its planned launch in October 2018, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project reports it remains on schedule and budget. Technical challenges with JWST elements and major subsystems, however, have diminished the project’s overall schedule reserve and increased risk. During the past year, delays have occurred on every element and major subsystem scheduleespecially with the cryocoolerleaving all at risk of negatively impacting the overall project schedule reserve if further delays occur.”
Don’t bite off more than you can chew… the original concept called for more of an an evolutionary successor to Hubble. NASA pushed the project to a much more costly level.
It’ll be worth it when it launches and hopefully finds some good stuff. Plus it was going to be difficult to build an IR telescope in any situation.
“Too big to fail.” Nothing else like it. Guess we will just wait.