NASA’s flagship space telescope suffers yet another launch delay

The launch of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been delayed once again, with a revised lift-off window set for no earlier than May 2020. The next-generation space telescope had previously been slated to launch into orbit atop an Ariane 5 rocket from the European Space Agency's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, in the Spring of 2019.

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• ESA
• James Webb Space Telescope
• JWST
• NASA
• Observatory
• Space telescope
• Telescope

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