NASA has indeed deferred the launch of its new ground-breaking space observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope, generally because of interruptions originating from the COVID-19 pandemic. Most as of late scheduled to fly in March of 2021, the monstrous telescope is currently scheduled to launch on October 31st, 2021.

The Government Accountability Office, or GAO, had just anticipated this postponement. NASA thought of the new date in the wake of doing a broad survey to check whether the March 2021 planning was really conceivable. The organization qualities around a quarter of a year of the postponement to social distancing and different safeguards that must be set up to guard individuals from the coronavirus. “Much of the impact, of course, comes from people not being at work, right?” Thomas Zurbuchen, the associate administrator of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA, said during a press conference. “Not touching the hardware or from having a reduced number of people available to do shifts.”

Be that as it may, coronavirus isn’t exclusively to fault. Two extra months were added to the timetable thanks to specialized difficulties experienced by the essential contractor, Northrop Grumman, as it sorted the telescope together and conducted testing. Northrop Grumman has just managed various specialized issues during the development of the spacecraft, for example, washers and screws coming loose during tests — as well as accidental tears in the vehicle’s thin sunshield, which is intended to protect the observatory from the extreme warmth of the Sun. NASA at that point included an additional two months as schedule margin, in the event that other obscure issues crop up between now and launch.

The James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, has been tormented with delays all through its whole history. The observatory, first considered during the 1990s, was anticipated to cost between $1 billion and $3.5 billion, with a launch date somewhere close to 2007 and 2011, as indicated by the Government Accountability Office. Since the time at that point, the expense of the project has expanded and the launch date has been more than once deferred.

In 2011, Congress rethought the whole project, making a cap of $8 billion on the telescope’s development, with a launch in 2018. Be that as it may, in 2018, NASA deferred the project once more, expressing that $8.8 billion was required for the development, and that the whole of the strategic expense $9.66 billion, remembering the expense of operating the telescope for space. That year, NASA set the March 2021 launch date.

NASA doesn’t hope to surpass that spending plan any further, even with the new postponement. “Based on current projections, the program expects to complete the remaining work within the new schedule, without requiring additional funds,” Gregory Robinson, the program director for James Webb, said during a press call, “where we use existing program funding to stay within this $8.8 billion development cost cap.”

NASA says it has just spoken with Arianespace, the organization that will launch JWST, about the postponement. The organization guarantees that the rocket’s proposed ride, the Ariane 5, will be prepared to take the vehicle to space next Halloween. NASA is likewise standing firm by the October 31st date. “We’re not expecting to go beyond October 31st,” Robinson said. “We have high confidence in that.”

The James Webb Space Telescope is destined to be the most remarkable space observatory at any point constructed when it’s propelled, equipped for peering back so as to when the Universe previously appeared 13.8 billion years prior. The telescope sports an enormous gold-plated mirror, estimating 21 feet, or 6.5 meters, over, that will accumulate light from the far off reaches of the universe.