NASA’s $8 Billion Successor to Hubble Telescope Is Delayed to 2020
- James Webb Space Telescope postponed from initial 2018 launch
- Agency will need Congress to budget more money for project
James Webb Space Telescope
Source: NASA
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A more sophisticated successor to NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope won’t launch until at least May 2020 to allow for additional testing and fix production errors in a project that will require more money from Congress.
The $8 billion James Webb Space Telescope is designed to peer even further back into time than the Hubble, probing the earliest dawn of the universe, the formation of stars and phenomena too distant to explore with current technology.