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Originally Posted by Chronissz
I was reading through the site thinking just that, and I saw this near the end of the page:
The link leads to here: http://jwstsite.stsci.edu/ ,
Quite an ambitious project, its kind of worrisome because unlike the Hubble, we wont be able to service it once it's put out in space, but the ability to view passed the obsticles that have always stood in our way, and truly see into deep space is an amazing feat. I've got my fingers crossed for it, but I can foresee a lot of problems that could easily arise to stop their progress, not to mention ruin it entirly. Imagine if they pulled a Hubble type mistake on this one, and its all the way at the moon. |
Now that you pointed it out, I had heard of this, but I didn't realize it gotten this far. I thought it was just a proposal, not an actual project. Thanks for pointing it out. Great news indeed. Unfortunately, that site seems to be a bit out of date. I did a search and found this though:
http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/ According to that site, the launch has been pushed back to june 2013 at the eariliest... A shame...
Hopefully it'll prove to be a worthy successor to the hubble. Looks like it'll be a long wait, but the images this should be capable of will make it worthwhile.
