JWST Development Still Faces Challenges

Credit: NASA
Despite recent technical progress, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is headed into its peak year of spending with less schedule margin and fewer funding reserves than anticipated for the $8 billion flagship astronomy mission as it advances toward a planned 2018 launch. Less than three months...

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