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NASA in 1995: watch this, i can build an 8 meter space telescope in 12 years for only $500 million
>fast forward a quarter of a century
NASA in 2022: just kidding guys, we really took 28 years and spent over $20 billlion and the telescope is only 6.5 meters. jokes on you! hahaha!

>>12647679
SPEND IT ALL ON JWST!!!!

>>12635108
LUVOIR is cool. Too bad the JWST platform has so far proven only the extreme complexity of such designs with the current slow paced focus. Hopefully these fancy new heavy launchers will change things a bit. For me, it's the 1km diameter inflatable sphere or something like that to use as a lens telescope. That'd be cool as fuck and within realm of possibility

>>12616142
>due to retarded politicians
JWST, which is now 14 years behind schedule and more than 3000% over budget, has eaten up a lot of the funding, personnel & resources available to other projects. Its not like there are an infinite number of people capable and qualified to work on these projects even if there were unlimited budget. Nearly all of the people capable of qualifying for those jobs decided that they would rather earn more money doing something else.

>>12583666
LMAOOOOO
>mfw china steals the plans for jwst from nasa and it causes the collapse of the chinese economy

JWST seems on schedule for Oct 2021 at the moment. Will it make it, Anons?

>>12382508
NASA awarded another $400 million to JWST when they moved the launch date to October from March. JWST was started in 1995 with an initial proposed budget of $500 million and proposed launch date in 2007. They have now spent over $15 billion on the project. If its not ready for launch by June of next year then they're going to need even more money for JWST because it needs to be at the launch site 65 days prior to launch and moving the thing to the docks to get it to ship in time for launch mean that it they need everything ready to go by sometime in June.

>>12366498

>>12362014
don't despair, nothing ever happens

>>12318198

How many space telescopes do you think Elon Musk could put in space if he were given a 25 year deadline and a $15 billion budget?

why does it take more than a quarter of a century to build a space telescope? hubble was launched 12 years after the project was started. hubble also came in substantially less than 3000% over budget, which is where jwst is right now. hubble was only 1075% over budget.

people in academics don't contribute anything, they don't have the capability.
the wright brothers invented the airplane regardless having had no formal education, academic physics had been bashing it's head against the problem for decades without success, many of them believed that airplanes were fundamentally impossible.
universities are filled with nothing but incapable stupid losers that put on an act like they know what they're doing,decades and decades of no success at anything punches tons of holes in that act.

They stopped working on it in February
https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/status/index.html

The JWST Recent Accomplishments & Status website hasn't been updated since February, pretty safe to say that JWST has been canceled, but they haven't made the announcements yet.
https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/status/index.html
Thank god they finally stopped dumping billions of dollars down that rathole.

That mark, though, was set in the 2014 fiscal year. SLS dates back further — to George W. Bush’s administration, when it was the Ares V rocket.

Nomenclature notwithstanding, the booster is treading what author Greg Klerkx called “familiar territory” for NASA: “Limited performance, huge price tag, and the triumph of self-interest over space-faring vision.” As for Orion, its contract was awarded in 2006, and the capsule has yet to transport a single astronaut. Amount spent: Over $18 billion.

In an era plagued by a $25 trillion national debt, vastly higher unfunded liabilities for nationalized eldercare and a downturn that could rival the Great Depression, the need to nix NASA is clear.

A vestigial bureaucracy still profiting from something it achieved in 1969, NASA has managed to stay alive, decade after decade, despite mounting irrelevance. In his seminal survey of the politics of America’s “Space Age,” Walter A. McDougall diagnosed the rapid decline of the once-proud pioneer.

After its successful moonshot, the historian wrote, Washington’s “technocratic machine soon broke down before imponderables ranging from the stubbornness of the North Vietnamese to the anti-intellectual rebellion on the campus, the public’s boredom with space, the perturbing influence of special interests, and exploitation of the system by the mediocre, lazy, or corrupt.”

With neither political nor popular support for a permanent moon base and/or a trip to Mars, the space shuttle became NASA’s dominant raison d’être. Big mistake.

Writer Malcolm McConnell aptly characterized the vehicle as the “ultimate product of blatant Congressional pork barreling, bureaucratic duplicity, inexcusable corporate deception, and public ignorance.”

Is the James Webb Space Telescope "Too Big to Fail?"
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-the-james-webb-space-telescope-too-big-to-fail/
>2017

HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!!
NASA CANCELED JWST
https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/status/index.html

June 6, 2003

NASA awarded the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) the contract to manage the James Webb Space Telescope Science and Operations Control Center. AURA was the only applicant for the contract.

The contract is for products and services required to prepare the science program; develop ground systems; provide science and engineering support; provide integration and test support; perform educational and public outreach; perform flight and science operations during the launch and commissioning of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

AURA will manage the Science & Operations Control Center at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. The total estimated contract value is $162.2 million. This procurement will result in a cost-plus-fixed-fee type contract. The period of the contract is from now through launch, plus one year.

The JWST is scheduled for launch in 2011 aboard an expendable launch vehicle. It will take about three months for the spacecraft to reach its destination. The JWST will reach an orbit approximately 1.5 million kilometers (940,000 miles) in space, called the second Lagrange Point (L2), where the spacecraft is balanced between the gravity of the sun and the Earth.

To see deep into space, the JWST will carry instruments sensitive to the infrared wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum. The new telescope will carry a near-infrared camera, a multi-object spectrometer and a mid-infrared camera/spectrometer. Infrared capabilities are required to help astronomers understand how galaxies first emerged after the rapid expansion and cooling of the universe, a few hundred million years after the big bang.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., manages the JWST for the Office of Space Science, NASA Headquarters, Washington. The program has industry, academic and governmental partners, including the European and Canadian Space Agencies.

>scheduled for launch in 2011

when is nasa going to announce that the $500million dollar space telescope they started building in 1996, which was supposed to have launched in 2007, still hasn't launched, has no scheduled launch date in the future, and that the nonexistent space telescope has now cost over $15 billion and that the federal government is about to borrow another $2 billion to spend on the project even though it will never launch.

have they scheduled a launch date for jwst yet?

last 4 digits of the 13th reply to this thread is how many more days until jwst launches