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Old 09-06-2019, 11:23 PM
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The James Webb Telescope hasn't left Earth yet, the launch has now been delayed until 2021. Once its deployed there will nobody going to fix it, if it fails, just too far away.

Because its an Infrared only telescope, it needs to hide in the Earths shadow so the heat from the Sun doesn't corrupt the images.
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