Thomas Young – Spaceflight Now

July 31, 2025

Breaking News

[ July 31, 2025 ] Cumulus clouds scrub launch of Crew-11 mission to the Space Station Falcon 9
[ July 29, 2025 ] SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Falcon 9
[ July 28, 2025 ] SpaceX, NASA conduct static fire test of a Falcon 9 rocket ahead of the Crew-11 launch Falcon 9
[ July 26, 2025 ] SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites into a polar orbit Falcon 9
[ July 26, 2025 ] Crew-11 astronauts, cosmonaut arrive in Florida ahead of launch to the space station Falcon 9

Webb’s launch delayed to 2021 at an extra cost of nearly $1 billion

June 27, 2018 Stephen Clark

An independent panel has informed NASA that the James Webb Space Telescope will not be ready for launch until March 2021, and Congress will have to reauthorize the long-delayed, over-budget mission after breaching an $8 billion cost cap, officials said Wednesday.