The launch date for NASA’s James Webb telescope, largely built by Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, has been delayed from Dec. 22 to “no earlier than Dec. 24” because of a communication issue between the ground control and the launch vehicle system. [See related story]
NASA made the announcement late Tuesday from the launch site at the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana. The folded telescope was put in a cone atop its booster rocket Dec. 12.
Engineers were attaching the nose cone when the communications issue was discovered. ER.
