This Nasa file photo shows the primary mirror of Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope inside a cleanroom at Nasa’s Johnson Space Center in Houston,Texas. Photo: AFPDallas: 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. The Webb originally was scheduled to launch this year, before work delays caused Nasa to postpone to spring 2019. The Webb is named for Nasa’s administrator from 1961-1968, who helped create the Mercury and Apollo programs.

Source: Mint March 28, 2018 05:26 UTC