Editorial: NASA’s Webb telescope is an initial success — despite formidable odds
Members of the Webb telescope team at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana, celebrate the telescope’s successful powering up on 25 December 2021.It was a big-science project plagued with so many problems that it seemed destined to fail. For years, the James Webb Space Telescope — an ambitious observatory planned and funded by NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency — was the target of astronomy’s most scathing jokes.
Remarkably, Webb has pulled off an essentially flawless deployment so far. Scientists and engineers are breathing huge sighs of relief. It’s an apt moment to assess how other big-science projects can avoid the pitfalls that plagued Webb — and to look ahead to the astronomy that scientists hope the telescope will reveal. There are also management lessons to be learnt.
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