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[i]BepiColombo, unlike JWST, has a narrow launch window in order to reach Mercury. ESA officials said earlier in July that the mission's current launch window opens Oct. 5 and runs through Nov. 28. JWST does not have similar launch window restrictions... "It's unclear if BepiColombo will be out of the way" before JWST arrives at Kourou for launch preparations, [Alan Boss, an astronomer at the Carnegie Institution and a member of the Astrophysics Advisory Committee] said. He believed JWST needed three to six months of "full access" to facilities at Kourou to prepare for launch. "You really want to have BepiColombo long gone before you move in and start taking over." If BepiColombo sticks to its current schedule, that could mean delaying JWST by several months. "There's some concern that that October 2018 launch may actually slip into the spring of 2019," he said.[/i]
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