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I am quite skeptical that it will take place this year. The project is already 14 years late and ~20x over the original budget. I expect them to announce a shoc

• koheripbal 6y ago
  14 years "late" is not exactly accurate as the initial time projections were based upon full funding from the initial moments of the project - which was never a realistic goal. Similarly, the 20x budget overrun number makes two errors - 1. that the initial numbers were in today's inflation adjusted dollars (which they were not), and that project scope remained exactly the same - which it has not. Numerous aspects of the telescope have been enhanced/improved to accommodate additional science.
  • nickff 6y ago
    The project was supposed to take 10 years and is already at 24! That's simply atrocious, and saying that they didn't get everything they wanted to is a poor excuse. I ran the numbers for inflation adjustment, and 500MM in 1997 is equivalent to ~811MM today. That means the project is between 12x-20x over budget... not much of an improvement in my mind.