Early cost estimates for the Habitable Worlds Observatory come in at around $11 billion, on par with Webb, which far exceeded its original cost projection.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a sufficiently ambitious observatory where it\u2019s going to require an all-of-nation [approach],\u201d Domagal-Goldman said Tuesday in a meeting of the National Academies\u2019 Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics. \u201cFrankly, we\u2019re going to need our partners internationally to be a big part of this as well. But we need the best and brightest from throughout the country, whether they\u2019re at Goddard, another NASA center, an industry partner, a new space commercial partner, or a university, to be a part of what we\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Domagal-Goldman said this week that NASA aims to use its experience in developing and launching the Roman telescope on budget to help bring future flagships like HWO under tighter cost controls.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have proven with the launch of Nancy Grace Roman, ahead of\u00a0schedule and on budget, that it is not a law of nature that these projects will go over schedule and over budget,\u201d he said. \u201cThat doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re easy, and it doesn\u2019t mean we can be cavalier that they will always be on schedule and on budget because that\u2019s also been disproven.\u201d<\/p>\n
The lessons NASA has learned about implementing flagship projects include the importance of defining the mission\u2019s architecture and requirements and ensuring its underlying technologies are well understood before engineers start building flight hardware, according to Domagal-Goldman.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo put it succinctly, you need to understand the challenge, have a mission where the challenge is incredibly well understood, and then once you understand it, then you put your pedal to the metal and take that observatory to the launch pad as quickly as you can,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Early cost estimates for the Habitable Worlds Observatory come in at around $11 billion, on par with Webb,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-613252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}