re: #106 Dark_Falcon

But here is the thing: the claim of “badly over budget” is applied to a program which isn’t necessarily performing badly but whose initial costs were under estimated due to the fact because such a device (space borne active cooling infra-red telescope) is a new thing.

Yes, infrared imaging has been done in space before, but never on this scale or at this extreme.

The whole point of research is that one intentionally goes down paths one has not gone down before.

In this case the original costing of the project is now seen, in hindsight, to have been too simplistic. It is not as if the people constructing the telescope are doing a poor job.