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    NASA’s Next Space Telescope Is Running Out of Time

    The James Webb, Hubble’s successor, may face more delays and even exceed its budget, according to a new government report.
    by Marina Koren Mar 02, 2018 5 minutes
    Source: NASA / MSFC / David Higginbotham

    The world’s next great space telescope is falling behind.

    The James Webb Space Telescope, NASA’s successor to the famed Hubble, is at risk of experiencing significant delays in development, according to a new report from a government agency that audits federal programs.

    Webb is an $8.8 billion project two decades in the making. Last September, NASA announced it was delaying the telescope’s launch by at least five months, from October 2018 to between March and June 2019. At the time, NASA officials said the change wasn’t due to any problems with the hardware, but because assembling the telescope’s many complex parts was “taking longer than expected.”

    That delay may not be the last, according to the Government Accountability Office. “Based on the amount of work has to complete before JWST is ready to launch, we found that it’s likely the launch

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