Bigger, Bolder Telescopes

Published 2020-03

In 2018, a review board found that NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope project was already $8.8 billion over budget and still many years away from taking flight.

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Verdict

fadedNot listed again within the publisher's next two editions, nor later (D33).

A trend is graded on whether the publisher keeps it, never as a hit or a miss (D6, D33).

The same forecast in other editions

2019rank 320
2020rank 388

All captured fields

rank: 388
section: Space and Off-Planet Trends
subject: Bigger, Bolder Telescopes
page: 354
confidence: medium
note: Title from the contents list in the SlideShare transcript of the publisher upload; order and section from contents page numbers. Quote added 2026-10-02 from the full slide transcript of the publisher upload (SlideShare, Wayback capture of the newer page format); source_url points at the section that holds the page.