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Great news! I’m happy about this. Just curious - had this mission critically fail, how likely would we be to simply try again? Who needs to approve the cost for
by microjim 5y ago
Great news! I’m happy about this.
Just curious - had this mission critically fail, how likely would we be to simply try again? Who needs to approve the cost for that? Would it be politically important to succeed currently?
- ttul 5y agoI don’t think there was a way to fix it remotely. It would just do minor science missions with whichever instruments actually worked.
- microjim 5y agoSorry - by ‘try again’ I meant build a new one and launch it
- PaulKeeble 5y agoHopefully it inserts into L2 orbit successfully and starts doing science. If the results are interesting I can well see a future mission to try and refuel it to extend its life past its projected 10+ years.
- randmeerkat 5y agohttps://www.cnn.com/2021/12/30/world/james-webb-space-telescope-updates-scn/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/30/world/james-webb-space-telesc... “It also used less propellant than planned due to the precision of the telescope's launch aboard the Ariane 5 rocket, so "the observatory should have enough propellant to allow support of science operations in orbit for significantly more than a 10-year science lifetime," according to NASA.”