NASA Delays The James Webb Space Telescope Launch Again

NASA Delays The James Webb Space Telescope Launch Again

★Handout photo dated November 22, 2016 of the primary mirror of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope consisting of 18 hexagonal mirrors looks like a giant puzzle piece standing in the massive clean room of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Appropriately, combined with the rest of the observatory, the mirrors will help piece together puzzles scientists have been trying to solve throughout the cosmos. Last summer, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) set an October 31, 2021, launch date for the $ 10 billion James Webb Space Telescope, but it's having to delay the science observatory's trip into space once again. Thankfully, the launch might take place just a few weeks later, in November or early December. A rescheduled date is unlikely to be confirmed until later this summer or perhaps in the fall. The instrument, successor to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, which i

  • Product Code
  • ILEA000733893
  • Registered date
  • 2016/10/28 00:00:00
  • Credit
  • ABACA / Kyodo News Images
  • Media source
  • ABACA
  • Media size
  • 2557 × 3833 pixel
  • Resolution
  • 240 dpi
  • Deployment size
  • 1.16(MB)*
  • Special instruction
  • Germany, France OUT

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos