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Mike Wehner
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- NASA has announced that the James Webb Space Telescope will yet again miss its planned launch date and instead launch in October 2021... maybe.
- The telescope was originally supposed to launch in 2007 on a $500 million budget.
- It's been nearly a decade and a half since the planned launch, and costs have ballooned to $10 billion.
Hey, stop me if you've heard this one before: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope isn't going to launch when it was supposed to launch. Sound familiar? Well, that's because the telescope has seen so many delays that at this point I've honestly lost count. According to NASA, the new launch date (which will probably also not happen) is October 2021.
NASA officials made the announcement on Thursday and blamed a number of factors for the delay. The COVID-19 pandemic was top of the list, which is fair, and work on the James Webb telescope was indeed impacted by workers not being able to come in as usual. The other potential factors included months of additional testing to ensure the telescope's folding array works as intended and other maintenance.
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NASA’s next-gen space telescope delayed for the millionth time originally appeared on BGR.com on Fri, 17 Jul 2020 at 23:10:38 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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