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23. Yay! James Webb space telescope is years away...at least

Mon Apr 11, 2016, 07:31 PM

Apr 2016

NASA's next great space telescope

Assembly of the next great space observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), is now underway at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Launch target: 2018.

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-nasa-great-space-telescope.html

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NASA scrambles as Kepler telescope goes into 'emergency mode' [View all] Calista241 Apr 2016 OP

Hard science is hard PJMcK Apr 2016 #1

It doesn't cost all that much in the grand scheme of things. Cassiopeia Apr 2016 #2

Many Many Thanks SoLeftIAmRight Apr 2016 #5

It's not just those spent trillions. Cassiopeia Apr 2016 #6

go go go SoLeftIAmRight Apr 2016 #7

love the sig line. Cassiopeia Apr 2016 #8

Yeah, the money PJMcK Apr 2016 #10

It's all of it (handouts that is) Cassiopeia Apr 2016 #12

Not only do they have to design it to work, they have to keithbvadu2 Apr 2016 #3

Years ago, when the Pentium class chip Cassiopeia Apr 2016 #13

That's the story of any processor designed for space. backscatter712 Apr 2016 #14

Exactly. Cassiopeia Apr 2016 #15

New Horizons.... reACTIONary Apr 2016 #20

Unfortunately, Thespian2 Apr 2016 #9

FYI The planned mission duration for Kepler was.. reACTIONary Apr 2016 #11

Hope it didn't lose one of the two remaining reaction wheels. Thor_MN Apr 2016 #16

I'd rather my tax dollars go to NASA than to the war machine. navarth Apr 2016 #17

I agree Matthew28 Apr 2016 #22

Nasa re-establishes solid contact with Kepler spacecraft Eugene Apr 2016 #21

Yay! James Webb space telescope is years away...at least Baclava Apr 2016 #23