{"id":18784,"date":"2017-09-30T00:01:27","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T16:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/2018-turns-into-2019-for-webb-space-telescope-and-maybe-boeings-space-taxi\/"},"modified":"2017-09-30T00:01:27","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T16:01:27","slug":"2018-turns-into-2019-for-webb-space-telescope-and-maybe-boeings-space-taxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/2018-turns-into-2019-for-webb-space-telescope-and-maybe-boeings-space-taxi\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 turns into 2019 for Webb Space Telescope (and maybe Boeing\u2019s space taxi)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA says it\u2019s moving the launch date for its $8.8 billion James Webb Space Telescope from October 2018 to the spring of 2019, citing a longer-than-expected process of integrating elements of the house-sized spacecraft. The latest delay for the oft-postponed launch was announced on Thursday after a routine schedule assessment. Launch is now set for sometime between March and June 2019 from Europe\u2019s spaceport in French Guiana, atop a heavy-lift Ariane 5 rocket. Also this week, Space News reported that the first crewed launch of Boeing\u2019s Starliner space taxi to the International Space Station could slip from late 2018 to early 2019.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Aligning the Primary Mirror Segments of the James Webb Space Telescope\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZM3rnomT9iU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA says it\u2019s moving the launch date for its $8.8 billion James Webb Space Telescope from October 2018 to the spring of 2019, citing a longer-than-expected process of integrating elements of the house-sized spacecraft. The latest delay for the oft-postponed launch was announced on Thursday after a routine schedule assessment. Launch is now set for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[670,1560,190,1306],"class_list":["post-18784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-boeing","tag-james-webb-space-telescope","tag-nasa","tag-starliner"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18784"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}