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 The James Webb Space Telescope is slated to launch in October of 2018. If successful, it will be one of the greatest engineering accomplishments of mankind. I wrote a detailed article on James Webb a year ago (The Precision (and Promise) of the James Webb Space Telescope)
Recently the last of it's science instruments were installed keeping it on track for launch. See article below:
James Webb Space Telescope now fully equipped with science instruments
A team of some two dozen NASA technicians and engineers have successfully installed the package of four science instruments that will accompany the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The instrument package comprises a collection of cameras and spectrographs that JWST will utilize to record astronomical observations made with its 6.5-meter (21 ft) golden mirror. It has been a long journey for NASA's successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. Design work on the JWST began nearly 20 years ago; the structure was completed and the mirrors installed earlier this year.
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