James Webb Telescope Slammed, Getting New Leadership
By Frank Morring, Jr. morring@aviationweek.com, Michael Bruno michael_bruno@aviationweek.com
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Independent Comprehensive Review Panel said late Nov. 10 that the minimum cost to launch the planned Hubble successor would be $6.5 billion for the earliest launch date of September 2015 – far above the $5.1 billion in the Fiscal 2011 presidential budget request already on Capitol Hill, and later than the June 2014 expectation ...
