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Delayed service: the Jame Webb Space Telescope
While JWST's telescope optics and scientific instrumentation have cleared tests, the equipment must still be assessed following integration with the spacecraft set to carry the payload to its LaGrange point orbit - and that schedule has now slipped by around a year. The latest estimate from NASA is for a May 2020 launch, some seven years later than the original plan. Image: NASA.
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