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That link to the JWST status page isn't even worth looking at, they don't bother updating it more than twice a year and the change the work schedule before every update so that can announce everything is on time.
The James Webb Space Telescope project was first announced in 1995, at the time the proposed budget was $500 million and the launch was expected in 2007. They've now spent $15.4 billion dollars trying to build the thing and it needs to be ready to ship by June to make the next delayed launch schedule in October and they really don't have a shot at having it ready to ship before June 2022 or so, but they run out of money later on this year again. When they ran out of money last February, NASA found $400 million out of petty cash to keep the project going.
All of this to study dark matter which doesn't even exist.
The Hubble Space telescope has been orbiting for 30 years and the net benefit to anyone other than the people who get paid to operate the program has been zilch.

That link to the JWST status page isn't even worth looking at, they don't bother updating it more than twice a year and the change the work schedule before every update so that can announce everything is on time. The James Webb Space Telescope project was first announced in 1995, at the time the proposed budget was $500 million and the launch was expected in 2007. They've now spent $15.4 billion dollars trying to build the thing and it needs to be ready to ship by June to make the next delayed launch schedule in October and they really don't have a shot at having it ready to ship before June 2022 or so, but they run out of money later on this year again. When they ran out of money last February, NASA found $400 million out of petty cash to keep the project going. All of this to study dark matter which doesn't even exist. The Hubble Space telescope has been orbiting for 30 years and the net benefit to anyone other than the people who get paid to operate the program has been zilch.

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I find that synopsis quite believable .. the whole "Space Telescope" saga has been a nightmare since 1991, when the Hubble Space Telescope went into orbit with an , which meant the images it returned suffered from "spherical aberration," where after hi cost "" were launched .. begging the conclusion there could have been a hoax aspect to those as well.

Commentary at the time said the way to correct the SA would be to readjust the secondary mirror, NASA for whatever reason said it was "reluctant" to do that and billion$ more flowed into the pockets of the scammers .. the wonderful space shots attributed to the HST that turn up regularly are said to have been taken by image stabilized, Earth based multi mirror telescopes.