NASA’s long-awaited James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will likely miss its March 2021 target launch date due to Covid-19
on the website of the Space Telescope Science Institute —the science operations center for the JWST—in which it further delayed the deadline for science proposals for the observatory’s first phase.
Astronomers have to get their proposals for “telescope time” in to observatories many months or years beforehand, and for JWST the competition is intense. These so-calledOriginally due on May 1, 2020, STSci is now “exploring options for a proposal deadline in the fall.” Astronomers will know the new deadline at least 12 weeks in advance, said the STSci.
NASA is expected to review the JWST mission schedule—possibly including issuing a new proposed launch date—inFor NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to fit into an Ariane V rocket for launch, it must fold up.ArianeSpace.com Gardner also reported that the JWST had recently been stowed in its launch configuration. Once that’s finished it has to go through vibration and acoustic chambers—to simulate a launch—before being fully tested afterwards for breakages.
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