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As for "eye candy" a lot of the imaging may well be at a single wavelength so a single color. Many images of exoplanets will probably be dots and the, the interesting information being distribution of IR "colors" from point sources.
Here is the news from 2016: After 20 Years, NASA Finally Finished Building The James Webb Space Telescope Now it's ready for the final tests before launch in 2018 https://www.popsci.com/james-webb-space-telescope-is-now-rea...
Not knowing the actual team, but being familiar with space projects, the satellite probably didn't start getting built in earnest until the MCDR in 2010. Most of these kind of projects start off as a spitballing study and then grow and grow and grow into a flight program. That is the time period being cited as starting in the 90s. It's expensive as hell, and took a while to build - but I think, considering what it is…
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Not knowing the actual team, but being familiar with space projects, the satellite probably didn't start getting built in earnest until the MCDR in 2010. Most of these kind of projects start off as a spitballing study and then grow and grow and grow into a flight program. That is the time period being cited as starting in the 90s. It's expensive as hell, and took a while to build - but I think, considering what it is…
> The price is a bit insane... but it's also like, wonder of the world level of engineering So is the price of a bespoke suit. It's not like you can go down to Sal's Satellite Symposium and pick one of these things off the rack like Levi 501 jeans (or picking up a Toyota RAV4). Most of these types of things are more handmade than even (e.g.) Ferraris, which at least have a production run of a few hundred or thousand…
Small precision, because the title of the article is wrong: JWST is a joint NASA–ESA–CSA project and is actually launched by ESA.