{"id":133307,"date":"2021-12-30T12:23:22","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T20:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/james-webb-space-telescope-has-enough-fuel-for-more-than-10-years-of-mission"},"modified":"2021-12-30T12:23:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T20:23:22","slug":"james-webb-space-telescope-has-enough-fuel-for-more-than-10-years-of-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/james-webb-space-telescope-has-enough-fuel-for-more-than-10-years-of-mission","title":{"rendered":"James Webb Space Telescope Has Enough Fuel For More Than 10 Years of Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/james-webb-space-telescope-has-enough-fuel-for-more-than-10-years-of-mission.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Ariane 5 rocket launching Webb on the right path.<\/p>\n<p>After nearly 30 years of planning and thorough work, NASA finally got to launch its $10 billion next-generation space observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), on Christmas day. JWST is now headed on a long six-month trip until it can begin its science mission and start to conduct routine science operations.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it turns out that JWST might be traveling and collecting data for much longer than initially expected. JWST was forecast to be operational for 5 to 10 years, but NASA\u2019s latest analysis revealed that the observatory should have enough fuel to \u201callow support of science operations in orbit for significantly more than a 10-year science lifetime.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Ariane 5 rocket launching Webb on the right path. After nearly 30 years of planning and thorough work, NASA finally got to launch its $10 billion next-generation space observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), on Christmas day. JWST is now headed on a long six-month trip until it can begin its science [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}