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NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterJWST Mission
12/25/2021
The GAO argued that conducting a JCL at the system integration review would allow the JWST project to update its assumptions of risk and uncertainty based on testing the separate spacecraft bus and optical elements prior to integration.
JWST released an infrared image of Neptune, its rings, and moons that is the most detailed look at Neptune since Voyager 2's 1989 flyby.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was nearly $10 billion and marked its first anniversary of releasing science images last Thursday.
Development of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) dominated discussions about space-based astronomy for more than two decades.
The new 3D map utilized many wavelengths from JWST's Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS), with each wavelength corresponding to a distinct temperature and altitude.
The team used JWST's Near-Infrared Spectrograph to monitor the brightness of the TOI-561 system as TOI-561 b moved behind its star.
NASA identified that cuts to WFIRST to pay JWST cost overruns would take place in fiscal years 2020 and 2021 and would have the effect of slowing the WFIRST project.
NASA’s fiscal year 2019 budget request sought $304,600,000 for JWST.
Northrop Grumman declined to accept responsibility for paying the $800,000,000 overrun above the JWST mission's $8,000,000,000 cost cap on the grounds that doing so would create a more fixed-price relationship with NASA.
Greg Robinson, JWST program director at NASA Headquarters, and Scott Willoughby, vice president and JWST program manager at Northrop Grumman, believed the mission was on track to complete a final set of environmental and deployment tests and be shipped to the launch site at Kourou, French Guiana, by the end of 2020.
JWST integration and testing activities at the Northrop Grumman facility were reduced from about 45–50 NASA personnel weekly to about 15 personnel.
NASA and ESA have a formal launch readiness date of 2021-10-31 for JWST but the launch schedule suggests JWST will not launch earlier than the second half of November.