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James Webb is a trainwreck. It took 20 years of delays to launch it.

• ceejayoz 1y ago
  Wait until you hear how long this project winds up taking. Webb took a long time because this stuff is very, very challenging. One of its primary engineering challenges was… cooling!
  • boutell 1y ago
    To be fair, they wanted it very cold indeed
• gammarator 1y ago
  It _was_ a trainwreck. Now it’s in space making great discoveries.