NASA restarted the Hubble telescope replacement project

NASA is restarting the James Webb space telescope project. This is expected to be Hubble's successor telescope, which is over 27 years old.

The Hubble Space Telescope , named after American astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble, was first launched into Earth orbit in April 1990.

The James Webb space telescope launch schedule may continue to push back to early 2019.

NASA's prediction, the Hubble glass will be deactivated since 2014, but due to the lack of replacement telescopes, NASA has decided to repair and upgrade to increase the operating time up to 2020.

According to the BGR, NASA originally intended to choose the October 2018 period to officially launch the James Webb space telescope to orbit. However, the schedule may continue to push back until early 2019.

James Webb is 7 times larger than Hubble, more powerful and more costly than Hubble. James Webb owns a camera with Hubble 15-fold field of view, which greatly improves the resolution of the image.

Hubble Telescope.

Perspective to design James Webb telescope when in space.

James Webb is expected to operate on a higher orbit, about 1.5 million kilometers above the ground - more than four times the distance from the Moon.

Unlike Hubble, which was created to observe visible and ultraviolet light, James Webb can observe infrared light, which expands the search space more than Hubble.

NASA said the delay in launching Webb was not due to any technical or hardware problems, but by integrating some components onto the spacecraft.

Hubble Space Telescope has more than 27 years of dedicated service to space science with many astronomical astronomical photographs. It has also become a common symbol of humanity to this day.