{"id":15885,"date":"2016-01-28T14:39:35","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T20:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15885"},"modified":"2016-01-28T14:39:35","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T20:39:35","slug":"nasas-james-webb-space-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15885","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#8217;s James Webb Space Telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>If JWST works as expected, it\u2019s carrying enough fuel on-board that it should operate from 2018 through 2028, and although it\u2019s never been done, the potential exists for a robotic (or crewed, if the technology gets developed by then) re-fueling mission to L2, which could increase the telescope\u2019s lifetime by another decade. Just as Hubble\u2019s been in operation for 25 years and counting, JWST could give us a generation of revolutionary science if things work out as well as they could. It\u2019s the future of astronomy, and after more than a decade of hard work, it\u2019s almost time to come to fruition. The future of space telescopes is almost here!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/startswithabang\/2016\/01\/28\/the-future-of-astronomy-nasas-james-webb-space-telescope\/\">The Future Of Astronomy: NASA&#8217;s James Webb Space Telescope &#8211; Forbes<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If JWST works as expected, it\u2019s carrying enough fuel on-board that it should operate from 2018 through 2028, and although it\u2019s never been done, the potential exists for a robotic (or crewed, if the technology gets developed by then) re-fueling &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15885\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[855,513,512,658],"class_list":["post-15885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-astronomy","tag-nasa","tag-space","tag-telescope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15886,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15885\/revisions\/15886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}