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Why does the launch date keep slipping? I've been looking forward to this launch for a very long time and I'm getting pretty irked at the teams sending this up,

Why does the launch date keep slipping? I've been looking forward to this launch for a very long time and I'm getting pretty irked at the teams sending this up, to the point where even if they are completely successful I hope they don't get put on another big project like this again. Hopefully the delays have been because it's a lot harder to send this to L2 successfully than anyone thought or could have known, and now we do.

sp332 5y ago
Lately, Covid has been the holdup. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notices/covid-4/coronavirus-french-guiana https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notices/covid-4/coronavirus-fre...
- newnamenewface 5y ago
  This is complete hearsay but I was sat next to a engineer working on the project on a recent flight. He mentioned to me that 1.) it would be delayed past October till December, and probably early into next year, and 2.) COVID, like any good excuse, was being used because it was there and not necessarily because it caused the delays. Maybe the engineer was just telling a story with a bit of flair but I believed him.
  - thehappypm 5y ago
    Anything can be blamed on covid or global warming.
colechristensen 5y ago
Why? Time estimation is hard and you’re a pretty bad PM of a scientific missions primary goal is to launch by a date. You keep working until you are confident you can do it right. Failures happen when delivery dates are more important than quality.