Complexity, funding slow Canadian instruments for the Webb telescope

Canadian Space Agency (CSA) officials expect a three-month slip in delivery of the Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS) and Tunable Filter Imager (TFI) for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), after design issues in the state-of-the-art instruments that required them to seek parliamentary authorization...

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