JWST
Technicians work on the James Webb Space Telescope during a test of its Deployable Tower Assembly. NASA confirmed June 10 that the mission will miss its March 2021 launch date because of the pandemic.

The head of NASA’s science directorate confirmed June 10 that the James Webb Space Telescope will miss its March 2021 launch date, a slip that was all but inevitable as the coronavirus pandemic slowed work on the spacecraft.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...